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48 lines
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Welcome to Bochs, an 80386 emulator!
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Bochs is a portable x86 emulator, which runs Minix-386 and
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MS-DOS/Windows. You can compile and run Bochs on almost
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any Unix & X Windows environment.
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Since software emulation is very performance sensitive, it is
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recommended that you run Bochs on at least a 100Mhz machine,
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with a minimum of 32MBytes of physical memory. Additionally,
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you'll need a couple Megabytes of disk space to uncompress and
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compile the Bochs distribution, plus 10 to 30 Megabytes for
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the creation of hard disk image files, depending upon the option
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you choose.
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Installation begins with the BOCHS.TAZ file. It is a compressed
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tar format file, of the entire Bochs source distribution. You
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need to compile Bochs for your platform before using it. To
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extract the source code, change directory into a parent directory
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in which Bochs will be untarred:
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unix:/> cd /usr/local/src
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-or
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unix:/> cd /users/JohnDoe/src
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Uncompress and untar Bochs:
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unix:/usr/local/src> zcat BOCHS.TAZ | tar xvf -
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You should now have a sub-directory 'bochs-YYMMDD'. Change directory
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into it, and read the files 'INSTALL.MINIX' & 'INSTALL' for further
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detailed installation notes. For uses of Bochs, outside of running
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the version of Minix on this CD, please consult the file 'LICENSE'.
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The file 'INSTALL.DOS_WIN31' may also be of interest.
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Thanks for your interest in using Bochs! Current versions of Bochs
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as well as other relevant information may be obtained at the following
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Web and ftp sites. Feel free to give me feedback on portability and
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other relevant issues. I'd like to continually enhance Bochs, and
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add to its general portability.
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http://world.std.com/~bochs
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ftp://ftp.std.com/pub/bochs
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Kevin Lawton
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Bochs Software Company
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bochs@world.std.com
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