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>Is Bochs right for me?</TITLE
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>1.3. Is Bochs right for me?</A
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>Bochs is very useful for some applications, and not well suited to others.
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This section tries to answer the question, "Is Bochs right for me?"</P
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>Bochs may or may not be right for you, depending on what it is you want to do.
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Perhaps all you want to do is run one or two applications native to Microsoft Windows
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on GNU/Linux, or vice-versa. Perhaps your biggest concern is speed and performance.
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Maybe you don't mind tweaking a few files here and there when you want another application
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to work in that setting.
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In cases where the objective is to simulate x86 hardware on an x86, Plex86, Wine, and
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VMware might be your best options.</P
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>On the other hand, perhaps you have a vital application running on an older operating
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system that only runs well on old hardware. You are concerned that the life cycle of
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this hardware is coming to an end, and your backup and restoration hardware and tools
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no longer suffice for the amount of data that you have. You need to transfer backup
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disk images over a network, and want to use modern procedures for hardware maintenance.
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Perhaps the application is important enough to run on a larger computer, such as a
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64-bit machine, or even a mainframe. Bochs would be an excellent option in such a scenario.</P
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>Perhaps your objective is to debug software or hardware drivers. Bochs offers a controlled
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environment that can better assist you in determining cause and effect relationships.
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You can take snapshots that show you what is going on behind the scenes.
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You can isolate the line that caused that crash. You can have multiple
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images and compare them under a microscope.
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In these situation, Bochs could save you time and resources.</P
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>Information Technology changes faster than any other field.
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It is very easy to forget transitional software that came and went.
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But history is important to all fields, and to build on the future,
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it is important to understand the past. Computer programmers, however,
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do not have the same advantage as an architect, who can, for example,
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take a trip to Greece and touch a pillar. Much of the history of Computer
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Science is left on corroding floppies and malfunctioning hardware.
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Bochs gives you the benefit of having one or more complete environments
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where you can understand firsthand the behavior of operating systems and
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programs. This cannot be achieved with an "emulator" such as Wine.</P
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