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Author: David Huerta
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Subject: bochs and bximage~ What other architecture aside from Apple/IBM clones
Sun-SPARC, Amiga, and SGI are other architecture flavors out there. I
have a Sparcstation 5 myself.

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On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Michael Havens wrote:

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> I am doing my daily dist-upgrade and I see it is upgrading bochs. Being the
> inquisitive guy I am I looked at it's man page to see what it does.
>
> bochs(1)                         The Bochs Project
> NAME       bochs - Portable x86 Emulator.
> SYNOPSIS       bochs [bochs_options] [bochsrc_options]
> DESCRIPTION
>        Bochs is a portable Intel Architecture  32 (x86) emulator that runs on
> most  popular  operating systems. Inside  the emulator,  it  can  run  many
> operating systems including GNU, GNU/Linux and Microsoft(R) Windows(R).
> ~~~~~~~~~

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> Portable x86 emulator? Ohhhhh. Is this for those who are not on x86 computers?
> (apple and whaterver else is out there) What else is there besides Apple and
> IBM clones? Does Motorola have there very own architecture Or are they an IBM
> clone?? I think someone said that they did. Is intel an IBM clone machine? I
> know, that terminology is so 80's. Motorola needs to support the Linux
> movement! Since Intel designs chips for M$ motorola should make their chip
> for Linux. Then Linux will have two very major companies behind it. Does IBM
> make processors also?
>
> Also; what in the world does bximage do? All I can gleam from the man/info
> page is thaat it is an 'interactive disk image creator'. I ran it to see how
> it works and it didn't do anything. Is this supposed to put bochs on a disk?
> I am so confused right now!
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