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Date: Tue,  1 Mar 2011 17:52:22 -0800
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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] realemu
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in coreboot we went with an emulator instead of dropping to 16-bit and
running the bios. We did run 16-bit code directory for a few years (I
wrote that bit), but it's just too dangerous to trust a vga bios. I
think if a BIOS has to support VGA bios with an emulator then an OS
should do the same. We caught VGA BIOS'es doing very bad things all
the time ...

I think this is really great work, cinap.

ron