Desktop Metaphor

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 10/29/18 8:59 PM, Tomasz Rola via cctalk wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 05:43:37PM +0100, Holm Tiffe via cctalk wrote:
> [...]
>> For mission critical stuff this may be ok, but what's the
>> advantage for the desktop if you can't even run Virtualbox or Qemu,
>> simh, cpmsim, dosbox and other related stuff?
>> The same problem on Dragonfly, Nice File system (Hammer,Hammer2)
>> but....
> Out of curiosity I have browsed a what is supposedly a mirror of
> ports, say, this one:
> https://ftp.fr.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/packages/amd64/
>
> and there are packages for dosbox, qemu and simhm albeit I cannot say
> if versions are acceptable. The rest could perhaps be compiled from
> source?
>
I use SIMH a lot.  I never rely on the prebuilt stuff on

any of the BSD's or Linux.  They always tend to be

several releases back.


bill