> Other than that I don't really consider dosemu (or DOSBox) anything > other than a "Virtual Machine" with some DOS-specific knacks.
Or rather, "a 'virtual machine' that only supports DOS". - Darrin On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 4:13 PM C. Masloch <pus...@ulukai.org> wrote: > On at 2022-03-14 18:47 +0100, Liam Proven wrote: > >> I don't agree that this feature "makes DOS apps part of the apps on > >> the computer" > > > > DOS apps (not games but productivity applications) are by nature text > > mode apps, with only a few modern exceptions which probably won't work > > well on DOSemu anyway. > > > > All xNix text-mode apps are designed and intended to exchange > > information by means of plain text: either text files, or pipes. > > > > DOS apps under DOSemu *windows* work on whatever is in the Linux > > filesystem, and that generally includes the ability to import or > > export plain-text files. And if you run them without graphics support, > > you can pipe their output to other shell commands. > > > > For me, that means that DOS apps can be used alongside with, and > > interact with, Linux apps. That is what I was getting at when I said > > that they work alongside Linux apps, as just another type of binary > > you can run -- in a way that is _not_ true of DOS inside a VM. > > Some things to note: > > 1. Yes, you can use your Linux terminal (dosemu mode -t or mode -dumb) > to do your DOS application's I/O. This is fairly unique, although qemu's > -curses mode is similar to dosemu's -t. > > 2. dosemu runs an actual DOS system, traditionally FreeDOS. On the > contrary, DOSBox is mostly used without a proper DOS, running its own > operating system shims. (dosemu2 is blurring the distinction a bit with > fdpp, which is a FreeDOS kernel port that runs in 32-bit or 64-bit host > code and replaces the proper DOS kernel you can use otherwise. fdpp > *only* runs in dosemu2 so far.) > > 3. The major feature of dosemu is certainly its filesystem redirector, > based on the MachFS DOS redirector, which allows you to access host > directories as DOS drives, and supports (to some extent) simultaneous > accesses from Linux and DOS. (DOSBox has this too, but IIRC only for its > built-in OS, not for when you boot an actual DOS instead.) > > Other than that I don't really consider dosemu (or DOSBox) anything > other than a "Virtual Machine" with some DOS-specific knacks. > > Regards, > ecm > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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