23 Dec
2022
23 Dec
'22
12:53 p.m.
On Friday, December 23, 2022, 01:54:57 AM EST, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 12/22/22 18:45, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote:
Shirley none of you are serious about a 32-bit (at
least partially)
operating system being able to execute on a 286 processor.
You couldn't even run Windows 3.1 in Enhanced mode on a 286 processor.
Well, if you want to pedantic about it, you certainly could emulate a
32-bit processor on any reasonably Turing-equivalent processor, given
sufficient memory. It might be incredibly slow, but you could do it.
--Chuck
I was going to say assembly language texts and maybe even Intel docs give examples of
substituting 2 or more instructions to replace a newer processors instructions, that the
earlier one never heard of. Not sure if that's what Fred was talking about.
Who cares about W95/98. I want to see NT 4.0 running on PC Peanut.