Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!phri!marob!daveh
From: daveh@marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: XDOS Lets DOS Programs Run On Unix Systems
Keywords: WHat exactly does this program do?
Message-ID: <366@marob.MASA.COM>
Date: 11 Nov 88 15:33:01 GMT
References: <331@hrc.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Organization: ESCC  New York City
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In article <331@hrc.UUCP> dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel VP) writes:
>Not exactly sure where to post this, I chose comp.misc. I read in Info World
>about a program that will run ms-dos programs on a Unix box. What exactly
>does this program do? How does it deal with the terminal i/o ? Does it take
>the code straight from binary and re-code it into the native code for your box?
>

It is my understanding that XDOS disassembles the 8086 binary and reassembles
it with 68000 instructions.  Any 8086 instructions which can not be duplicated
in 68000 assembler are replaced with emulation routines.

Dave Hammond
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