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I don't understand how DOSEMU is still relevant today, now that we have DosBox (or rather it's various, substantially better, clones DosBox-staging and DosBox-X
by dark-star 5y ago
I don't understand how DOSEMU is still relevant today, now that we have DosBox (or rather it's various, substantially better, clones DosBox-staging and DosBox-X). I'd probably even pick a full-blown VM over DOSEMU...
- Zardoz84 5y agoraw performance. DosEmu always faster that DosBox or a VM
- dark-star 5y agoI sense that this is just a gut feeling. Or do you have the numbers to back that up? DosBox has JIT, and a VM is essentially the same as DosEMU (virtualization), so I highly doubt the performance difference would amount to more than just a few percent. Also, for DOS application, "raw performance" rarely matters, as those were programmed to run on a 486