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In a message dated 08-06-15, mark lewis said to Mike Luther:

Hi Mark and Mike,

 RN>>> Have it and it won't boot.  That's probably because of the Intel 3G
 RN>>> 3G processor (G2030).

 HG>> That is surprising. I don't understand why/how a processor can
 HG>> influence the autoboot process.

 ml>> because it may not support some of the old machine language
 ml>> instructions...

ml>  MikeL> Precisely correct!  It all goes back to even ring level.
ml> multiple
ml>  MikeL> CPU's even up tp sixteen of them and even machine language
ml> plus
ml>  MikeL> assembly language that is involved with everything even
ml> through
ml>  MikeL> Warp 4.52.  I think most folks never really had access to
ml> all this
ml>  MikeL> unless they were a valid member of the OS/2 Developer Group
ml> and
ml>  MikeL> were getting all of the update mess mostly step by step, but
ml> even
ml>  MikeL> at that time not always without missing one or getting your
ml> hoofee
ml>  MikeL> poked by an unknown nail when you stepped on it! And went
ml> crying
ml>  MikeL> over it to the 'crew' and got even your footsee patched up.

ml> the way that i'm aware of it is that many virtual machine emulators
ml> also do not recognise the machine language instructions that OS/2
ml> uses to boot with... i'm not aware of any way to make then emulate
ml> older CPUs either... i'm just aware that OS/2 pretty much cannot be
ml> run in most machine emulators and this machine instruction problem
ml> is the reason...

Thanks for enlightening me and sorry for the chopping of the lines that
my QWK reader made above.


Have a good night,

Holger

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