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From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Free IBM PC simulator available by FTP
Message-ID: <1991Apr21.160240.18950@santra.uucp>
Date: 21 Apr 91 16:02:40 GMT
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Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
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In-Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)

>Everything in all the directories is copyright.  Permission is hereby
>granted to upload and use the files for educational and research use only.
>Other use requires written permission from the copyright owner.
>
>
>Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)

Ah well, when seeing the subject in comp.archives, I thought somebody
had finally written a free Intel processor emulator, with free meaning
it can be copied, made better, used for whatever purpose, sold, source
available, etc.  But not so, it appears I can't run a game on it if
the game is not educational or I'm not doing research about the game
or the emulator.

Anyway, thanks for the emulator, I'll probably try it sometime on my
pc532 (what would be nicer than running 8088 Minix on top of pc532
minix ;-).

But would people please use words with a more precice meaning in the
subjects, so they wouldn't give wrong impressions to readers.  I don't
consider a program free if I'm the program can't be freely used to run
anything on it, ie. there are this restrictions as strict as not being
able to use it for anything other than educational and research use
only.

//Jyrki