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Re:The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option by mcculley on Sunday May 15, 2022 @05:57PM (#31391551)
The end user need not know it is QEMU atop Linux. They see and use DOS.
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Re:The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option by ale42 on Monday May 16, 2022 @04:20AM (#31394649)
Yes, but inside a VM. What access to real hardware (e.g. to communicate with the outside world) does the user get?
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Re:The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option by necovek on Monday May 16, 2022 @06:24AM (#31395325)
Whatever is configured with QEMU: everything if that was the use case.
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Re:The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option by ale42 on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @06:49AM (#31421189)
But it looks like their setup is not configured to give access to hardware, at least I didn't see any options on the command line.
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