Unfortunately, it was engineered to emulate an 8086, and didn't lend itself to be extended to support 8026 features. It did what it was intended to very well-run DOS. There was an emulator program called pcemu, which would run on a SPARC. The Wine and DOSEMU projects were making great progress, but they would never run on non-x86 architectures. A little searching on the Internet didn't turn up anything low- or no-budget that would run MS Windows 3.1 on a SPARC and for which source code was accessible. The idea of paying a lot of money to run something I'd already purchased didn't sit well with me, and I was interested in finding something I could extend if necessary.
#Bochs cmos software#
So, I began looking for a software solution which would allow me to run on my SPARCstation the handful of PC programs I used. Well, that got old quick! Having two keyboards, two monitors, and two computers on one's desk consumes more than desktop real estate-it takes much more time to maintain and introduces frustrations from the disparate OS designs.
Occasionally, though, I found myself firing up the ol' PC on my desk, using MS Word to crank out documentation or a memo, or to run one of a handful of smaller utility programs I purchased years ago. I could do almost everything computer related, including e-mail interaction, system administration, net surfing, network Doom (I confess-it was me who circulated that hack so you could run Doom on Solaris 2.3), all on the same machine I used for software development.
By far, the majority of my time involving a computer was spent working with my Sun SPARCstation.
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