This is the intial release of the IODEV (Input Output DEVices) component
of bochs, a 486 emulator.  It is not useful enough yet to begin coding the
emulation of devices (keyboard, hard drive, VGA, etc), but is distributed
so that people can help make it portable, by compiling it and running it
on as many systems as possible.

The program tests a minimal set of features, PIC & PIT emulation,
but is very simple minded.

In the next release, I hope to distribute a developers guide explaining
what you need to know to add emulation support for IO devices.  For this
release, I'm hoping just to get it to compile/run on many platforms.

So far, I've tried it and it works on:
  Linux .99p15 w/ GNU C
  Solaris 2.3 (SPARC) w/ SunPRO C
  SunOS 4.1.3 (SPARC) w/ SunPRO C
  
If you have access to any other platforms, please grab this distribution
and compile/run it.  If all goes well, you should see a '^' print to
stderr at the rate of 15HZ (ideally), though it will probably be something
more like 10-12HZ.  Your system needs to support the select() call &
have a virtual-time timer.

Please post problems & successes you have to the bochs-developers@amscons.com
mailing list.

Thank you,
Kevin