Hi Drew,
I saw the message before and I'm aware that the *main* point of Plex86 is
to be a virtualiser, but it looks to me like Kevin's virtualisation system
is good enough that we could virtualise everything and do this emulation,
without any extra work apart from writing host-specific modules.
If nothing else, I think it would be cool if there was the ability to
"plug in" virtualiser modules, maybe as shared libraries. I'm not asking
that you Plex86 guys do a lot of work to port Plex86 to another platform,
just that we take advantage of Kevin's already good design to make the
system even more open and flexible.
Besides, x86 isn't going to be around forever!
Ciao, Chris.
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Drew Northup wrote:
> I guess that you weren't around when we talked about this last time. We
> have no intent currently to make this work on anything other than x86
> Pentium-class(P5) & above. This is because this is a _vitualizer_ project,
> and not an emulator project. If you wish to work with emulators I suggest
> working with Kevin Lawton and Mandrake-Soft (spelling?) on the Bochs "box"
> emulator. It may be possible to port/edit/modify Bochs to do what you want
> it to, but this project is solely interested in making a virtualizer with as
> little "true emulation" as possible. Hope this helps you out.
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