Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 09 Apr 1998 13:50:44 +0000 | From | Richard Jones <> | Subject | Re: Wlinux vs. LWin95, looking at the alternative |
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Stephen D. Williams wrote: > On the other hand, as I mentioned earlier, it might be possible to > make Linux the more native OS and Win95 the more virtualized OS. If > ALL of the Win95 devices were virtual devices to Linux, then only > memory management and processor mode remains to be dealt with. What > if Linux reserved most of upper memory and fooled Win95 into believing > that there was less memory (easy due to the reliance on Bios)? [...]
As I understand it, there are only a few commands that can't be properly virtualized on the i386 processors. Is it possible that there are only a few tiny patches to the Win95 `binary' that need to be made to make it behave itself in a virtualized 386 environment? Perhaps someone who knows more about this than me can comment ...
Rich.
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