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Run Linux & Linux binaries on DOS (Announce)

posted by Oso2k, 01.10.2020, 19:40

> Yes, I readed the author post...
>
> But such DOS system is quite limited to realmode-only programs that must
> also behave nicely to the hardware to not destroy the linux in backgroud or
> they have HW restricted access by VM. So i think it's less usable than
> having a linux with running DosEmu that can also run p-mode dos programs +
> e.g. the SB emulation. I can imagine that DosEmu could be patched so you
> could call linux commands from dos prompt and would be passed to running
> linux. But he turned it upside down where I see more drawbacks than
> advantages. He also wrote there that he may include DPMI support so it
> could be then possible to run some p-mode programs in dos. But it will be
> still limited compared to normal dos (with ability of XMS and extenders).
> Maybe if he run the linux on 2nd core, maybe with aid of VT-x it could have
> better separation and robustness...
Maybe there's more drawbacks. Good VM separation would be fun.

I put in some work to build doslinux. It wasn't so hard. I think I could find some uses for this for my old 32-bit CPUs given some network drivers.

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