[rescue] Wouldn't it be a hoot: (was: Death of a

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 05:59:10PM -0500, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 06:01:59PM -0500, Julius Sridhar wrote:
> > 
> > Bochs will work fine, but Plex86 will not.  Plex86 only works on x86
> > machines.
> 
> really?  that's stupid, since plex86 is derived from bochs.  what did they do
> to so badly break it?

I don't know where it got started, but the whole point of plex86 is fast
virtual machines, ala VMWare.  This means letting the x86 chip just execute
rather than emulating it as much as possible.  Obviously, many calls need
to be trapped.

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Joshua D. Boyd