-=> mark lewis wrote to Mike Miller <=-

 ml> i think you'll want/need more than 4G of RAM to do anything useful... i
 ml> have 16G here and it is very tight at times and i'm wishing i had 32G
 ml> to be able to run all of my VMs...

Depends what you're truing to do.  a small DOS VM shouldn't take a lot of RAM.

 ml> the other thing, as i understand it, is that the emulation of certain
 ml> instructions is not fast... i'm thinking that there's some that cannot
 ml> be emulated so have to be handled another way... either way, the
 ml> emulated machine is slower than it would be if emulated on x86
 ml> hardware...

This would be the bigger issue.  You are definitely going to get better
performance running DOS on x86 hardware than on another processor, because the
amount of software emulation required is much less.

There's also another issue.  DOSemu is much "lighter" than loading Qemu and
then DOS/FreeDOS, so the startup time for the door would be somewhat faster
oo.


... (Oh no, (I'm nesting (parentheses) again...) help!)
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