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+# Welcome to the Bochs IA-32 Emulator Project
+
+Bochs is a portable IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in C++,
+that runs on most popular platforms. It includes emulation of the Intel x86 
+CPU, common I/O devices, and a custom BIOS.
+
+Bochs can be compiled to emulate many different x86 CPUs, from early 386 to
+the most recent (sometimes even pre-market) x86-64 Intel and AMD processors.
+
+Bochs is capable of running most Operating Systems inside the emulation 
+including Linux, DOS or Microsoft Windows.
+
+Bochs provides many different modes of operation, in support of a wide 
+variety of use cases.  The 'typical' use of bochs is to provide complete 
+x86 PC emulation, including the x86 processor, hardware devices, and memory.
+This allows you to run OS's and software within the emulator on your workstation,
+much like you have a machine inside of a machine. For instance, let's say 
+your workstation is a Unix/X11 workstation, but you want to run Win'95 
+applications. Bochs will allow you to run Win 95 and associated software on
+your Unix/X11 workstation, displaying a window on your workstation, simulating
+a monitor on a PC.
+
+## Bochs Approach
+Bochs is an emulator - not virtualization software.  It is portable across many 
+architectures: x86, ARM, MIPS, etc.  This means it must be able to emulate 
+every CPU instruction.
+
+This distinguishes Bochs from virtualization solutions like e.g. VirtualBox,
+VMWare, etc.  Those projects provide a nice user experience and fast
+performance, at the cost of hardware constraints, some non-determinism and 
+some necessary hacks to get programs working.
+
+Bochs' emulation provides a controlled, accurate execution environment, at 
+the cost of speed/performance.  This can be advantageous in some situations,
+for example:
+* When developing an operating system or bootloader
+* When dealing with very old, mission-critical software
+* When reverse-engineering system-level code
+
+For more information, see [the intro section](https://bochs.sourceforge.io/cgi-bin/topper.pl?name=New+Bochs+Documentation&url=https://bochs.sourceforge.io/doc/docbook/user/index.html) in the user guide.
+
+## Installing
+
+You can download Bochs from the [project page on SourceForge](https://sourceforge.net/projects/bochs/files/bochs/2.7/). See the
+CHANGES file for details on the most recent releases.
+
+## Usage
+See [the documentation](https://bochs.sourceforge.io/cgi-bin/topper.pl?name=New+Bochs+Documentation&url=https://bochs.sourceforge.io/doc/docbook/).
+
+## Contributing
+To get started, see [Bochs Developer Guide](https://bochs.sourceforge.io/cgi-bin/topper.pl?name=New+Bochs+Documentation&url=https://bochs.sourceforge.io/doc/docbook/).
+
+We currently need help with the below tasks.  To help with one of these tasks, please contact Volker Ruppert or Stanislav Shwartsman.
+
+### Bug Reports
+Mouse, interrupt controller, timer, IDE controller, network 
+card, keyboard, VGA... Most of our bug reports and feature requests are due
+to incomplete C++ models of the various PC devices. To improve this, we 
+need PC Hardware Gurus who know where to find the specs for this stuff and
+improve the hardware models for Bochs. Working on models is a fun way to 
+learn how things work, and unlike designing a real hard disk, you can test
+out your changes on a real operating system immediately!
+
+### Disk Images 
+Our collection of disk images is getting out of date. It would be great to 
+have small or large images of a variety of free operating systems.
+
+### Documentation 
+Adding installation help and other useful information into the docs.
+
+
+## Papers/Presentations
+
+* Bochs was presented at ISCA-35 in Beijing, China at "The 1st Workshop on 
+Architectural and Microarchitectural Support for Binary Translation" by a 
+paper "Virtualization without direct execution - designing a portable VM".
+  * [Paper](https://bochs.sourceforge.io/Virtualization_Without_Hardware_Final.pdf)
+  * [Slides](http://bochs.sourceforge.net/VirtNoJit.pdf)
+
+## Authors
+Bochs was originally written by Kevin Lawton and is currently maintained by this project.