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echo: win95
to: Holger Granholm
from: mark lewis
date: 2015-08-09 10:20:28
subject: Installing OS/2

07 Aug 15 09:16, you wrote to me:

 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...

 HG> Maybe there is a solution to that somewhere. I might have stumbled
 HG> over it while reading various documentations.

the only solutions i know of are to recompile the boot code (AFAIR it is
only the boot code with the problem) with new updated ASM instructions OR
to hack the binary for the new machine instructions OR to fix the virtual
machines' CPUs to recognize the old machine instructions...

)\/(ark

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