Doug Yowza wrote:
>
> On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
>
> > > > That's rather like asking if a PC/XT can emulate a 386.
> > >
> > > It can! I wrote a 386 simulator many years ago and threatened to burn it
> > > into an EPROM and stick it in an 8088 box to produce the world's cheapest
> > > (and slowest) 386 clone.
> >
> > Fine. Will it boot Linux?
>
> Of course! Linux was fairly easy to validate against since it doesn't
> exploit a lot of the 386 nastiness. Windows was worse (not to mention all
> the I/O device simulation that Windows required). By the end of my little
> project, my simulator was used to help validate Pentium clones made by Big
> Companies who hoped to make Intel go away (i.e., the simulation was very
> high fidelity).
Fine. How do I get a copy to play with?
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Received on Mon Nov 30 1998 - 21:38:03 GMT