diff --git a/bochs/README b/bochs/README index 685368056..59f219921 100644 --- a/bochs/README +++ b/bochs/README @@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ Bochs is a highly portable open source 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 x86-64 Intel and AMD processors -which may even not reached the market yet. Bochs is capable of running -most Operating Systems inside the emulation, for example DOS, -Linux or Windows. Bochs was written by Kevin Lawton and is currently -maintained by the Bochs project at "https://bochs.sourceforge.io". +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, for example DOS, Linux or Windows. Bochs +was written by Kevin Lawton and is currently maintained by the Bochs +project at "https://bochs.sourceforge.io". Bochs can be compiled and used in a variety of modes, some which are still in development. The 'typical' use of bochs is to provide diff --git a/bochs/doc/docbook/user/user.dbk b/bochs/doc/docbook/user/user.dbk index 630c46706..fead3f11e 100644 --- a/bochs/doc/docbook/user/user.dbk +++ b/bochs/doc/docbook/user/user.dbk @@ -36,15 +36,15 @@ This is the top level file for the bochs Users Manual. Bochs is a program that simulates a complete Intel x86 computer. 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 x86-64 Intel and AMD -processors which may even not reached the market yet. +x86 CPUs, from early 386 to the most recent (sometimes even pre-market) +x86-64 Intel and AMD processors. Bochs interprets every instruction from power-up to reboot, and has device models for all of the standard PC peripherals: keyboard, mouse, VGA card/monitor, disks, timer chips, network card, etc. Because Bochs simulates the whole PC environment, the software running in the simulation "believes" it is running on a real machine. This approach allows Bochs -to run a wide variety of software with no modification, include most popular +to run a wide variety of software with no modification, including most popular x86 operating systems: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP and Vista, all Linux flavors, all BSD flavors, and more.