06 Aug 15 14:46, you wrote to me:

 HG>>> As Sean Dennis mentioned earlier, another option would be a Warp
 HG>>> 4.52 CD. It is self-booting and IIRC also allows it to be installed
 HG>>> on large HD's.

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

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

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

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