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operating systems and software that ran on these old systems as well as important
documentation about the system hardware.
7.9.5.3 BOCHS
BOCHS [
94
] is an instruction emulator for 386, 486, Pentium/
PentiumII/PentiumIII/Pentium4 or x86-64 CPUs with full system emulation
support. It is intended for emulation accuracy and so does not run particularly fast.
It is capable of running Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP and Vista (see Fig.
7.24
), all
Linux flavours, all BSD flavours, and more and any application that runs under
them. It is highly portable, and runs on a wide variety of host systems and operating
systems.
7.9.5.4 JPC
JPC [
95
] is a pure Java emulation of x86 PC hardware in software. Given that it is
pure Java, then it will run on any system that has the SUNs Java Virtual Machine
ported to it. It claims to be fast but there is no mention of accuracy or timing.
Fig. 7.24
BOCHS emulator running
