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>The initial versions of some sections in this chapter are based on a document
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written by Peter "Firefly" Lund. It was added and updated in January 2006.</P
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>The Bochs virtual PC consists of many pieces of hardware. At a bare minimum
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there are always a CPU, a PIT (Programmable Interval Timer), a PIC
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includes both RAM and BIOS ROMs), a video card (usually VGA), a keyboard port
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(also handles the mouse), an RTC with battery backed NVRAM, and some extra
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motherboard circuitry.</P
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floppy controller, an APIC ..</P
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>There may also be more than one CPU.</P
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>Most of these pieces of hardware have their own C++ class - and if Bochs is
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configured to have more than one piece of a type of hardware, each will have
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its own object.</P
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>The pieces of hardware communicates over a couple of buses with each other -
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some of the things that the buses carry are reads and writes in memory space,
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reads and writes in I/O space, interrupt requests, interrupt acknowledges, DMA
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requests, DMA acknowledges, and NMI request/acknowledge. How that is simulated
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configuration files, can be written to and queried while Bochs is running) and
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the GUI object. There are many different but compatible implementations of the
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GUI object, depending on whether you compile for X (Unix/Linux), Win32,
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Macintosh (two versions: one for Mac OS X and one for older OS's), BeOS, Amiga,
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etc.</P
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>And then there is the supporting cast: debugger, config menu, panic handler,
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disassembler, tracer, instrumentation.</P
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