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echo: nthelp
to: Frank Haber
from: Geo.
date: 2003-11-30 17:26:42
subject: Re: MS Opsys End of Life

From: "Geo." 

Run this cpuid part by me again?

Isn't that just because it checks for minimum requirements?

Geo.

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:3fca211f$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> I looked at an XP Home SP1 boot floppy #1.  It's a standard
512-byte-sector
> 1.4MB twin-FAT12 floppy, IDing itself as "MSDOS 5.0," but
there's no DOS
on
> it.  The boot loader seems to be looking for NTLDR and SETUPDLRBIN.
>
> BTW, it won't boot on a 486DX2  (looking for CPUID function, etc.).  Damn
> rights management (g).
>

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