On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:53:39 -0400, Adam Jackson <a...@nwnk.net> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 11:35 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Alan Coopersmith > > <alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> wrote: > > > Isn't vm86 even further limited to just those machines running the Linux > > > kernel, not BSD or Solaris or anything else? (Okay, maybe that doesn't > > > take a huge chunk out of the number of machines that can run it, but it > > > is replacing one more platform-specific difference with common code.) > > I could have sworn one of the BSDs had implemented a vm86 syscall, but I > can't find any reference to it now. It certainly doesn't seem to exist > under Solaris.
FreeBSD had one. Trying to use it was a huge disaster, emulation was totally the way to go.
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