Coridon Henshaw wrote in a message to Peter Fitzsimmons:

 JZ>> Or upgrade your CPU.  SL-Enhanced CPUs like the
 JZ>> Pentium, 486DX4, and newer 486s have a feature called
 JZ>> Enhanced Virtual Mode.  This lets OS/2 virtualize the
 JZ>> interrupt flag in hardware.  Instructions that modify

 PF> ...you learn something new every day.  Thanks!

 CH> Something else new:  None of AMD's '100% compatible' 486DX2s
 CH> support EVM, unlike Intel's later-model DX2s.

Use the AMD chips.  You will find that these great new "features"
introduce incompatibilities which can have serious consequences.  This is
one of the reasons that Linux, for example, will run on the AMD 486DX4 but
not the Intel.
 
-- Mike


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