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    <entry>Floating Point</entry>
    <entry>Yes</entry>
    <entry>Uses software floating point routines written by Bill Metzenthen
    </entry>
  </row>
  <row>
    <entry>Enhanced BIOS</entry>
    <entry>Yes</entry>
    <entry>Implements specifications ElTorito, EDD v3.0, PCI32 directory service
    </entry>
  </row>
  <row>
    <entry>VGA</entry>
    <entry>Yes</entry>
    <entry>VGA color graphics emulation in a window
    </entry>
  </row>
  <row>
    <entry>VESA (Display) Support</entry>
    <entry>Yes</entry>
    <entry>Currently resolutions up to 1024x768x8pp are supported (so no
    16/24/32 modes). You must enable vbe and use the LGPL'ed VGABIOS.
    </entry>
  </row>
  <row>
    <entry>Floppy disk</entry>
    <entry>Yes</entry>
    <entry>Supports floppy disk images on all platforms: 1.44M 3.5", 1.2M 5.25", and 720K 3.5".  
    On Unix and Windows XP/NT/2000, Bochs can access the physical floppy drive.
    </entry>
  </row>
  <row>
    <entry>Multiple ATA channels</entry>
    <entry>Yes</entry>
    <entry>Emulates up to 4 (four) ATA channels. Up to 8 (height)ATA/ATAPI emulated devices can be attached,
    two per ATA channel.
    So you can have eight hard disks or seven hard disks and a cdrom or four hard disks and four cdroms, or one
    hard disk and seven cdroms, etc...
    </entry>
  </row>
  <row>
    <entry>Hard disk</entry>
    <entry>Yes</entry>
    <entry>Emulates ATA-2/IDE hard drives via image files.  Physical
    hard disk access is supported on some architecture, but NOT recommended, primarily for safety reasons.  
    Hard disk up to 32GB are supported, on any platform that support large files access. 
    </entry>
  </row>
  <row>
    <entry>CDROM</entry>
    <entry>Yes</entry>
    <entry>Emulates ATAPI-4/IDE CDROM.  The CDROMs can read from an ISO disk image
    on any platform.  On Windows (95/98/NT/2000), Linux, SunOS, FreeBSD, 
    NetBSD, Amiga/MorphOS, and BeOS, Bochs can read from the physical cdrom.
    Starting with version 1.4, Bochs is even able to boot from a bootable cd
    or bootable iso image.
    </entry>
  </row>
  <row>
    <entry>Keyboard</entry>
    <entry>Yes</entry>
    <entry>Emulates a PS/2 keyboard with North American key mappings. Optional keyboard layout
    remapping files are provided to support localized keyboard in X11 (german, french, italian, spanish,
    danish, swedish)
    </entry>
  </row>
  <row>
    <entry>Mouse</entry>
    <entry>Yes</entry>
    <entry>Emulates a PS/2 mouse with 2 buttons.
    </entry>
  </row>
  <row>
    <entry>Sound Blaster</entry>
    <entry>Yes</entry>
    <entry>Emulates a Sound Blaster 16 card.  On Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD
    you can send the output to your host computer's sound system.
    On MacOSX, this is not supported yet.
    </entry>
  </row>
  <row>
    <entry>Network card</entry>
    <entry>Yes</entry>
    <entry>Emulates an NE2000 compatible network card.  On Windows NT/2000,
    Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD, Bochs will forward packets to and from the
    operating system so that the guest OS can talk on the physical network.
    Unfortunately, on some platforms the guest OS can talk to any machine on
    the network BUT NOT the host machine.  On Windows and on systems that
    allow the TAP or TUN/TAP interface, there is no such limitation.  Often
    the host machine may be configured so the guest OS has access to the
    internet. On MacOSX, it is not possible yet to forward packets between the
    guest and the host.
    </entry>
  </row>
  <row>
    <entry>Parallel Port</entry>
    <entry>Yes</entry>
    <entry>Parallel port emulation was added by Volker Ruppert for Bochs 1.3.
    Data that is sent to the parallel port by the guest OS can be saved into a
    file or sent directly into the parallel port device (Unix only).
    </entry>
  </row>
  <row>
    <entry>Serial Port</entry>
    <entry>Yes</entry>
    <entry>The serial port (single 16450 UART emulation) is usable, at least 
    with Linux as host and guest.  
    Status for other OSes (host and guest) is not known.
    </entry>
  </row>
  <row>
    <entry>PCI</entry>
    <entry>incomplete</entry>
    <entry>The Host-to-PCI bridge, and Primary Memory Controller are available.
    However, PCI-to-IDE, PCI-to-USB, or other PCI cards are not implemented yet.
    </entry>
  </row>
  <row>
    <entry>Plugins</entry>
    <entry>Yes</entry>
    <entry>Plugins are supported on Linux, MacOS X, Solaris, and Cygwin.</entry>
  </row>
  <row>
    <entry>16/32 bit addressing</entry>
    <entry>Yes</entry>
    <entry>16 or 32 bit operand sizes, stack size, and addressing</entry>
  </row>
  <row>
    <entry>v8086/paging</entry>
    <entry>Yes</entry>
    <entry>Virtual-8086 mode and paging</entry>
  </row>
  <row>
    <entry>PIC</entry>
    <entry>Yes</entry>
    <entry>Master and slave programmable interrupt controller.
    </entry>
  </row>
  <row>
    <entry>CMOS functions</entry>
    <entry>Yes</entry>
    <entry>CMOS functions</entry>
  </row>
  <row>
    <entry>Dynamic Translation/Virtualization</entry>
    <entry>No</entry>
    <entry>Because Bochs is designed to be portable, it does not attempt
    to do any dynamic code translation or virtualization.  See 
    <link linkend="whatisbochs">What is Bochs?</link> for details.
    </entry>
  </row>
  <row>
    <entry>Simulate a Multiprocessor</entry>
    <entry>Yes</entry>
    <entry>Bochs can be configured to simulate up to 15 processors.  This
    feature is still experimental, but it can boot Linux 2.2 kernels with SMP
    support.  Please note that this does NOT mean that bochs can run
    faster on a physical SMP machine.
    </entry>
  </row>
  <row>
    <entry>Take advantage of your SMP box</entry>
    <entry>No</entry>
    <entry>At present, Bochs does not use threads or parallel processing, so it
    will not run any faster on multiprocessor hardware.
    </entry>
  </row>
  <row>
    <entry>Copy and Paste</entry>
    <entry>Yes</entry>
    <entry>Text-mode screen text
    can be exported to the clipboard. Text in the clipboard can also be pasted, through Bochs,
    to the guest OS, as simulated keystrokes.
    </entry>
  </row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
</section> <!-- End of Features -->

<section id="supported-platforms"><title>Supported Platforms</title>
<para>
       &FIXME; should add a column with supported display library (X11, SDL, wx, etc...)
</para>
<table><title>Supported platforms</title>
   <tgroup cols=2 align=left colsep=1 rowsep=1>
   <tbody>
   <row>
      <entry>Unix/X11</entry>
      <entry>X windows has always been well supported because it was
      Kevin Lawton's main development platform.  Bryce Denney maintains
      the Unix/X11 platform now.  Most features and fixes (not all) are
      tried first in Unix and then ported to the others.
      </entry>
   </row>

   <row>
      <entry>Win32</entry>
      <entry>This port was done by David Ross and is now maintained
      by Don Becker.  You can compile with MS Visual C++ 5.0 or 6.0,
      or Cygwin<footnote>
<para>Cygwin is a free Unix-like environment for Windows written by
Steve Chamberlain and now maintained by RedHat.  Download it from--you guessed it--<ulink url="http://www.cygwin.com">www.cygwin.com</ulink></para>
</footnote>.
      See <xref linkend="compiling-win32"> for compile
      instructions.  </entry> 
    </row>

   <row>
      <entry>BeOS</entry>
      <entry>Kevin Lawton wrote this port, originally to R3/PPC using
      CodeWarrior.  It now works on R4/x86 with egcs. Simon Huet picked up
      maintaining/reworking the BeOS GUI port.  In September 2001, Bernd Korz
      of Yellow Tab, Inc. 
      (<ulink url="http://www.yellowtab.com">www.yellowtab.com</ulink>), took
      over the BeOS/Zeta port.  Use the same compile and install process as
      Unix.
      </entry>
   </row>

   <row>
     <entry>MacOS X</entry>
     <entry>
     Emmanuel Mailliard ported the Macintosh code to MacOS X with Carbon API.
     Jeremy Parsons (Br'fin) has been maintaining the MacOS X port since
     March 2002.
     </entry>
   </row>
   <row>
      <entry>Macintosh</entry>
      <entry>David Batterham [e-mail] or [e-mail]
      ported bochs to the Mac.  He compiled with CodeWarrior Pro R1 (CW12).  To
      compile, you have to build headers and Makefiles on a Unix machine using
      "configure --with-macos".  Check out David's MacBochs website.  David has
      not had time to maintain the page or the Mac port since early 2000. If
      you have Mac development tools and want to contribute, contact the
      &devlist;. </entry>
   </row>

   <row>
      <entry>Amiga MorphOS</entry>
      <entry>
      This port is written and maintained by Nicholai Benalal.
      </entry>
   </row>

   <row>
      <entry>OS/2</entry>
      <entry> Nick Behnken used PE2LX to translate David Ross's Win32
      port to an OS/2 program.  This hasn't been updated in more than
      a year, and Nick Behnken's page seems to be inactive.
      Also, Craig Ballantyne ported bochs to OS/2, but his web page has
      disappeared and his port has not been updated since March 2000.
      His latest sources are at <ulink url="http://www.os2world.com/emulator/computer.html">http://www.os2world.com/emulator/computer.html</ulink>.
      If you want to bring the OS/2 port up to date, contact the &devlist;.
      </entry>
   </row>

   </tbody>
   </tgroup>

</table>
</section>  <!-- End Platforms section -->

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<section id="faq"><title>FAQ</title>
<qandaset>
  <qandaentry>
     <question>
       <para>Is Bochs Open Source?</para>
     </question>
     <answer>
       <para>
       Yes! Bochs is released under the <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html">GNU LGPL</ulink>,
       much thanks to <ulink url="http://www.linux-mandrake.com">MandrakeSoft</ulink>, makers
       of the Linux-Mandrake distribution.
       </para>
     </answer>
  </qandaentry>

  <qandaentry>
     <question>
       <para>How do you pronounce "bochs"?</para>
     </question>
     <answer>
       <para>
       Phonetically the same as the English word "box". It's just a play on the word "box", since techies like to call their machines a "Linux box", "Windows box", ... Bochs emulates a box inside a box. 
       </para>
     </answer>
  </qandaentry>

  <qandaentry>
     <question>
       <para>Who is the author of bochs?</para>
     </question>
     <answer>
       <para>
       Kevin Lawton is the primary author of bochs. There have been bug fixes,
       enhancements, and code contributions from some few hundred people, so
       it is not possible to list them all.  Recently, Kevin has been working
       on a PC virtualization project called <ulink
       url="http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/plex86">plex86</ulink>. In Fall 2002, he
       made contributed some major CPU speedups and helped with integration
       and debugging of the x86-64 emulation code.
       </para>
     </answer>
  </qandaentry>

  <qandaentry>
     <question><para>
     Who maintains bochs now?
     </para></question>
     <answer><para>
      With Kevin's help, in April 2001, the members of the bochs-developers
      mailing list set up a new official bochs site hosted by <ulink
      url="http://sourcefourge.net">Source Forge</ulink>. The admins on this
      project are Greg Alexander, Don Becker, Christophe Bothamy, and Bryce
      Denney.
     </para></answer>
  </qandaentry>

  <qandaentry>
     <question><para>