One could write a com loader for Linux pretty easily.

avian · on Aug 25, 2016

Indeed https://github.com/avian2/linux-com-loader

JoshTriplett · on Aug 21, 2016

com programs assume they run on DOS, so you might as well use dosbox for that.

Linux supports some other executable formats for embedded systems, but they don't have much less overhead than ELF.

bencollier49 · on Aug 21, 2016

The problem is that a lot of the demo programs are hooking Int 21h, which is provided by DOS / Windows.

mlvljr · on Aug 21, 2016

Would it run 16 bit code under x64 Linux (w/o any translation / emulation)? As Windows can't do it (only x32 versions can), thus wondering, if this is a CPU limitation.