Bochs Announces Improved Microsoft Windows Emulation in BeOS

Bochs Announces Improved Microsoft Windows Emulation in BeOS®

RELEASED November 9, 1998

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Bochs Software Company
Kevin P. Lawton, President
781.893.5628

Bochs Announces Improved Microsoft Windows Emulation in BeOS

Waltham, Massachusetts (November 11, 1998). Bochs Software Company today announced plans to improve performance and support for Be, Inc.'s Be Operating System (BeOS) version of it's $25.00 Microsoft Windows emulation software, "bochs".

Bochs is a portable x86 PC emulation software package that emulates relevant hardware and BIOS so that DOS and Windows and applications that run under DOS and Windows can run inside of a BeOS window.

Bochs performance improvements will include addition of dynamic translation techniques and specialized Windows video and hard disk drivers, utilizing BeOS APIs. These improvements should allow users to run typical Windows programs such as the MS Office suite with reasonable speed while using the BeOS.

Bochs is also available for Linux, Solaris, and most all other Unix platforms.

About Bochs Software Company

Founded in 1994 by Kevin Lawton, Bochs Software Company focuses on software emulation, providing a solution to running existing and legacy software on new platforms. The bochs emulation tool also offers features attractive to system level design and CPU manufacturers, such as instrumentation and a CPU co-simulation environment.

Complete source code to the emulation software is openly available online, along with additional information at .

About Be

Be, Inc., founded in 1990 by Jean-Louis Gassée, is a software company focusing on building new foundations for the next generation of digital content and media design tools. With a team of industry-leading engineers and business executives in the United States and Europe, the company is dedicated to removing the limitations of existing computer architectures and delivering a new level of price performance.

In July 1997, Be published the first public release of the Be Operating System (BeOS), the core product of this strategy. Additional information on Be and the BeOS is available online at http://www.be.com/. Be, Inc. is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.