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Bochs 2.0 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the inside-the-outside-the dept.

Jas Sandys-Lumsdaine writes "Bochs 2.0 has just been released - project lead Bryce Denney writes: "It's been a busy 6 months since our previous release! Bochs is now about twice as fast as version 1.4.1. Also, we can now emulate MMX instructions, SSE/SSE2, and even AMD x86-64 instructions if you turn on the appropriate configure options. The emulation improvements have paid off; several people have been able to install Windows XP recently." Excellent stuff."

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  1. I hope you like old software by flopsy+mopsalon · · Score: 0, Troll

    Remember that Microsoft is presently forcing corporations to accept the terms of XP licenses, even if they want to keep running non XP OS's like Win2k or even Windows 98. Since the XP license prohibits the use of Open Source software like BOCHS (or anything GPL'd) on corporate desktops, this cuts off a lot of BOCHS uses for businesses, unless they want to run a bunch of WIndows 95 apps.

  2. Re:Would it have been so hard to say... by Per+Wigren · · Score: 0, Troll

    Bochs 2.0 can also emulate AMD's x86-64 instructionset!

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