26 Apr
2007
26 Apr
'07
10:23 p.m.
--- Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 23 Apr 2007 at 15:51, Chris M wrote:
I'm not quite sure what I'm going to host it on. The
simply reason is I'm not actually planning on doing
anything LOL LOL. A question born out of simple
curiosity leads to a project oftentimes, I know, but
homie ain't playing that right now.
Wouldn't a V86 mode app be a subservient protected
mode process thing? Why would someone want to invoke
V86 mode in DOS (If I'm understanding you correctly),
if it were even possible. Chuck, are you nipping at
the cooking sherry again LOL LOL. I would certainly
thunk Linaches has a DOS emulator built on top of V86
mode, but what do I know.
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But a '186 is merely an '86 with some
other chips
tacked on. I don't know how V-8086 handles
"additions"
as it emulates a peecee on a windows box, but it
at
least seems that you could "add" on the
ancillary
'186
functionality in the same way you add the other
components present on a peecee mobo.
Yes, you probably could. The big problem that I see
is while the
386/486/Pentium V86 mode is close to what an 80186
does, there are
differences (itemized in the V86 mode description).
They may not
make any difference, but if they do, you're out of
luck.
Plus, setting up a V86 session is pretty involved.
You need to have
a protected mode server for the V86 session and set
up all of the
IDT/GDT/LDT stuff that goes along with it. It feels
like a lot of
work to me, but I could be mistaken.
I'm assuming that you're going to host this thing on
DOS; I don't
know what provisions for V86 mode are built into
Linux (never had a
reason to look), but maybe that might be easier.