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Neither Bochs nor QEMU emulate a vast set of specific hardware (such as motherboards, CPUs, video, SCSI, sound and network cards) from the 90s. With 86box I ma
by gattilorenz 4y ago
Neither Bochs nor QEMU emulate a vast set of specific hardware (such as motherboards, CPUs, video, SCSI, sound and network cards) from the 90s.
With 86box I managed to install and run, for example, a version of SCO Unix that only supports a very limited number of SCSI adapters and VGA cards: https://virtuallyfun.com/2021/07/13/installing-sco-unix-part-1/ https://virtuallyfun.com/2021/07/13/installing-sco-unix-part...
- rahen 4y agoInteresting. This could interest a project like NetBSD for automated regression testing on old hardware.
- gattilorenz 4y agoI guess it might help a bit, but the emulation is not 100% accurate, and I suspect the greatest challenges for NetBSD are anyway coming from non-x86 obsolete hardware like Vax, Amigas and the likes.