*(Everything is complicated .. )* DOSBox has two modes of operation. The emulated DOS mode is somewhat DOS compatible, and is what I was referring to. The mode you refer to is much closer to a virtual machine, and you can run real DOS from within that.
I'd have noted this in my email, but at some point these are no longer emails but dissertations. Yes, there are corner cases everywhere. I expect "InDOS" to work correctly in that second mode because it's behaving much closer to a real virtual machine, and not an emulator - it is actually running DOS, not faking it. Which highlights my point about using the correct terminology - emulators are not virtual machines. DOSBox just happens to do both. -Mike On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 4:52 PM Ben Collver <bencoll...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Michael Brutman wrote: > > > You can't refer to DOSBox or other things like it as virtual machines > and > > expect to be understood. That's the bottom line. > > Which is odd, considering one can boot the FreeDOS install CD image in > DOSBox, and it will act a lot like a virtual machine. > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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