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Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - beta2 (Announce)

posted by obeythepenguin Homepage, United States, 01.12.2011, 19:55

Hi Rugxulo,

> It's probably more noticeable in VMs (NTVDM or real emulation or
> virtualization). VirtualBox lets you cap usage to a certain percent. And
> there are various DOS TSRs to minimize CPU usage.

It's definitely more noticeable in QEMU, though of course that's a full-blown emulator, so it's going to be slower. Dillo on NTVDM is pretty close to running natively on Windows, apart from the CPU usage and slowdowns.

> Take a look at __dpmi_yield() mentioned in DPMI.H. IIRC, that's what
> various things (Bash, Mined, TDE) use to moderate everything. This
> supposedly (?) works in various places, Novell DOS 7, Win 3.x, OS/2, NTVDM,
> and presumably DOSEMU. (Japheth is the expert, ask him, I can't easily
> prove any of this.)

Thanks for the tip -- I'll check it out when I get a chance.

 

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