30 Nov
1998
30 Nov
'98
11:57 a.m.
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
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).
-- Doug
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.