Re: Supporting extension ROMs and beyond...

[ron minnich]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, ron minnich wrote:
> > compiling v86bios.vm86 from above I get everything into 20k.

not the emulator, surely. Just the bios support code, right?

Let's get our terms right.

BIOS support code -> the code in ADLO, or the linuxbios support code, that 
    provides BIOS support functions to expansion roms
emulator -> A software program that can interpret x86 instruction streams 
    and execute them

Let's stop using the term 'BIOS emulation' -- it's way too confusing!

The x86 emulator need to support the needs of an expansion rom bios is ca. 
150K at best.

The BIOS support code is tiny -- I'm not surprised at 20k.

ron