DOSemu - Does it work?

[Alma J Wetzker]

M.W. Chang wrote:
> It meant switching the CPU to a mode so as to access more than 1M of
> memory(those HIMEM.SYS, EMM386.SYS, QEMM kind of things). Remember the
> 640K memory limit of DOS?
> 
> 
>>I could be wrong; but I think I remember hearing that DOS emulation didn't 
>>work for applications that used "protected mode".  That stuck in my mind 
>>because I didn't know what "protected mode" meant.
> 

It also allows you to set up "virtual" processors with a single, controlling 
process so that memory and program space cannot be stomped on by some other 
process.  DOSemu cannot support protected mode because linux is already using 
protected mode.  I thought that DOSemu did provide for most of the things you 
would use a protected mode driver for, enhanced/extended memory being the 
usual one.

     -- Alma