23 Dec
2022
23 Dec
'22
6:54 a.m.
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