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GXemul is an experimental instruction-level machine emulator. Several
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emulation modes are available. In some modes, processors and surrounding
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hardware components are emulated well enough to let unmodified operating
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systems (e.g. NetBSD) run as if they were running on a real machine.
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The emulator is written in C, does not depend on third-party libraries,
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and should compile and run on most 64-bit and 32-bit Unix-like systems,
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with few or no modifications.
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Devices and processors are not simulated with 100% accuracy. They are
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only "faked" well enough to allow guest operating systems to run without
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complaining too much. Still, the emulator could be of interest for
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academic research and experiments, such as when learning how to write
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operating system code.
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