[Wine] Re: How to: Run a DOS program using Wine

[vitamin]

Sergio Samayoa wrote:
> 
> > LOL have you actually read what hardware he is running this stuff on? And 
> > 
> 
> No, I haven't readed in which HW he is trying to run it.
> Which is ?
> 
> 
> > why in the world would one need a whole VM for DOS?!
> > 
> 
> Isolation.
> I haven't readed how old is his program but I use to be a DOS Developer and
> used a lot of low level OS bypassed features such BIOS calls, direct memory
> access, port access, etc. which I guess wine can't manage.
> 
> Your VM could be as big as you need: set it with just 1 Mb of RAM and disk
> abot few Mb.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: wine-users-bounces at winehq.org [mailto:wine-users-bounces at winehq.org] En
> nombre de vitamin
> Enviado el: Lunes, 07 de Abril de 2008 07:58 a.m.
> Para: wine-users at winehq.org
> Asunto: [Wine] Re: How to: Run a DOS program using Wine
> 
> 
> Sergio Samayoa wrote:
> 
> > Beter install Free-DOS on VMWare virtual machine.
> > 
> 
> LOL have you actually read what hardware he is running this stuff on? And
> why in the world would one need a whole VM for DOS?!


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