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From: henkp@nikhefk.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM emulator for vax/unix
Message-ID: <113@nikhefk.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 7-Feb-87 20:16:37 EST
Article-I.D.: nikhefk.113
Posted: Sat Feb  7 20:16:37 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Feb-87 02:02:52 EST
References: <3394@garfield.UUCP> <3232@cisunx.UUCP> <2510@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: henkp@nikhefk.UUCP (Henk Peek)
Organization: Nikhef-K, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
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Keywords: IBMPC emulator

In article <2510@well.UUCP> tenney@well.UUCP (Glenn S. Tenney) writes:
=In article <3394@garfield.UUCP> arnold@garfield.UUCP writes:
=>I was wondering iff there is a program around that will allow one to
=>run IBM software (unmodified) on the vax/unix? If such an animal 
=>exists I would be interested in aquiring one. Thanks in advance.
=
=A couple of nights ago Andy Tanenbaum talked about Minix.  He said
=that in order to solve one of those 'last bugs' he wrote a PC similator
=for his Vax.  He said that the complete source is included on the Minix
=tar tape which is available from Prentice Hall for $80.  I doubt it
=will run PC software, since it probably simulates the PC not the PC with
=BIOS.  Good luck.
=Glenn Tenney

This simulator missed some of the instructions and flags not used by
the C compiller. The hardware emulation is: fixed programmed 8253,
floppy controller and uart. There is a good set of trace and dump
facilitys but only startup specifiable. It is not very fast.
So you need a big VAX to get a very slow "IBM-PC" and much work
to do to get a more complete emulation.

(I working on a extended version. It runs now also on my IBMPC
clone. Please do not ask for a copy, it is not ready. Oh, my
intention is not runing MSDOS software on a big unix machine!!)

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