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> It is hard to estimate how many people have tried Bochs or use it on a
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regular basis, but a few statistics give an indication. The <A
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>bochs-developers mailing list</A
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>, which is the
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primary source of news on bugs and releases, has over 400 subscribers. The
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latest version has been downloaded over 150,000 times from SourceForge, not
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counting any mirror website or CVS users.</P
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>Bochs has many possible uses, and different people use it for different
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things. Many people use it to run applications in a second operating system
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without needing two different computers or dual-booting. Running
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Windows software on a non-x86 workstation or on an x86 Unix box are common
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uses. Also, because every hardware instruction and every line of simulator
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code is accessible, Bochs is used extensively for debugging new operating
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systems. If you were writing boot code for your home-brewed
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x86 operating system and it didn't work right, booting it in Bochs could
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give you great visibility into what is really going on. The Bochs
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debugger lets you simulate quickly or slowly, pausing whenever you want
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to look at the contents of memory or the CPU registers. Or, if you
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wanted to study which parts of a program take the most time, you could use
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Bochs to measure how often certain pieces of the code were executed.</P
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>Bochs has been used as a teaching tool in Operating Systems classes, in which
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students used and modified it to learn how the PC hardware works. As a final
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project the students had to add a new peripheral device, so they had to learn
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all about I/O ports, interrupts, and device drivers. In industry, it is used
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to support legacy applications on modern hardware, and as a reference model
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when testing new x86-compatible hardware. </P
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>There may be as many uses of Bochs as there are users. Do you want to run
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your old DOS games? Or learn how to program under GNU/Linux, without leaving your
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Windows desktop? Or reverse engineer your printer driver? You decide.</P
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