To: "Linux Weekly News" <lwn@eklektix.com>
Subject: Bochs -- PC emulation under Linux
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 17:04:37 -0700
From: Jim Dennis <jimd@starshine.org>



 Linux Weekly News, Staff:

 In you're Linux Weekly^H^H^H^H^H Daily News you made reference to
 Mr. Dave Winer (copied on this message).  On the page that you link
 to he points out that there is a PC emulation product, Bochs, that 
 allows one to run Win '95 or Linux under NT (or apparently under
 Win '95).

 That's fine.  However it fails to point out that Bochs also has 
 a native Linux port that allegedly allows one to run Win '95 
 under Linux.

 Basically you can think of Bochs as a "Virtual PC" for the PC. It
 is distributed in source form as shareware (registration is $25 per
 seat).   The important comment here is that the link given my Mr.
 Winer goes to a page that buries the reference to the main Bochs
 page deep in it's text.  It misrepresents the situation (Bochs was
 developed for Unix to emulate PC's.  The port by David Ross allows
 the obverse).

 I hope to test Bochs in the near future.  Meanwhile there are hordes
 of Linux users out there that may want to visit Kevin Lawton's 
 page at http://std.world.com/~bochs.  (Dyslexics take note this site 
 is *not* to be confused with world.std.com which is apparently where
 the e-mail addresses for Bochs Software are supposed to go!).

 I think that references to Bochs should definitely point Mr. Lawton's
 site (which is cross-linked to the David Ross' Win32 port in an
 obvious and sensible way.  One thing that irritates me about Mr.
 Ross' site is that he doesn't mention the licensing or registration
 fees and expectations on the site (not that I could find anyway).

 (Presumably Kevin is aware of this and finds it acceptable from his
 position as the owner of the core copyright.  That's his business,
 of course.  However, I has a potential customer, don't like to 
 DL things with no idea of the copyrights and entanglements that
 might be involved.  Kevin make it very clear that Bochs is 
 a commercial product --- with full sources available for evaluation
 and he has the pricing info clearly posted in his 'license' page
 on the web site.  That's a product I'll buy --- possibly even if
 I don't need it.  It's a product the Linux community really needs
 at this point).

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