On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 01:41:52PM -0300, Nelson Posse Lago wrote: > On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > Are you saying that Win95 will run under Dosemu? Really? Please? :) > > Yes, that's exaclty what I'm saying. > > > Sure. And Linux does infinite loops in 5 seconds. > > Yep, everybody knows linux is really cool :-)))
You are right, I give up ;)_ > > Oh, come on, guys. Win95 runs in ring 0, this is a no-no under Linux, > > because this is kernel mode. > > Well, I thought so also, but I've seen reports of success from people that > wouldn't be spreading misinformation. I think win95 will accept to run > under DMPI, which dosemu emulates, and that's the "trick". There have been > reports of success and of problems, but quite a few people seem to have > done it, and they state it runs ok. They have also reported a few > filesystem wipe-outs before success too ;-) . Could you elaborate a bit on the term DMPI? What does it mean and what is it telling Win95? > Now, the problem is that you have to give direct access to the win95 > partition, which means if win95 goes south (I think this happens > sometimes ;-), linux is not able to "protect" that filesystem, and you > don't have permissions etc. The only advantage of doing this is not > having to reboot (which is cool enough). I wouldn't care about win95 partitions anyway ;) It sounded first like those "Nintendo 64 emulator on ZX Spectrum" news, but if it is really possible, well. People, I smell world domination! Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
