26 Sep
2013
26 Sep
'13
11:08 a.m.
On 26 September 2013 17:03, Guy Sotomayor <ggs at shiresoft.com> wrote:
No we ran bigger disks than that. INT 0x13 (the BIOS
disk interface)
did have a limit of 512MB (my fault actually) but for AIX PS/2 it only
required that the boot block and kernel be located within that range.
Once the kernel was running, it could access as much as the HW would
support and didn't use BIOS for anything.
OK, I defer, but do bear in mind that the snapshot I found might not
be the final version, it may have required specific disk controllers
found in PS/2s that VirtualPC can't emulate, and lots more
opportunities for things to go pear-shaped. :?)
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