Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS in a browser

[Louis S. <lps...@gm...>]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Jim Hall <jh...@fr...> wrote:
[SNIP]
> v86 is a virtual x86 emulator. It's like VirtualPC or Bochs or VMWare or
> VirtualPC or QEMU or VirtualBox or any other PC emulator .. except v86 runs
> entirely in your web browser. You don't need to run a local emulator.

There's also 8086tiny [0].

[SNIP]
> I'm thinking about adding something like this to the freedos.org website so
> people can try out FreeDOS. Not sure about bandwidth and web server
> requirements yet, though - so no promises.
>

It's probably best to get a distinct server to separate the traffic.
A 10MB image downloaded by 100 people is already 1GB of bandwidth.  A
your could pick up a server (say from a vendor at lowendbox[1]) for a
few dollars/month with 2TB or more bandwidth.  However, seeing if the
Internet Archive would be willing to support something might be more
fruitful.

[0] http://www.megalith.co.uk/8086tiny/index.html
[1] http://lowendbox.com/