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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. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    bitch!

  2. Grammar error? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Bochs was written by Kevin Lawton and is currently maintained by this project."

    Does that mean he is the maintainer of the project??

    1. Re:Grammar error? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Isn't Kevin Lawton the same guy who produces V.I.P.?

  3. For people writing summary stories by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It'd be nice if you acted like we were complete idiots and had no idea what Bochs is and told us in a sentence.

  4. Re:Advantages/disadvantages by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Anyone want to comment on fucking grapefruit versus fucking carberators? What the fuck is wrong with you?

  5. 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.

  6. IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nig slave beats YOU!

  7. Re:It's no grammar error! by jrs+1 · · Score: -1, Troll

    most ironic soviet russian post yet!

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  8. Free? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Come on shitheads, get it together... VMWare is 100000000000 times better. Stop being whiney bitches and pay for some real software, and not download free crap. RMS has brainwashed you dirty hippies. BE A REAL MAN, BUY SOME SOFTWARE TODAY!
    (P.S. This also applies to Linux fuckers too)

  9. 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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