Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [off-topic] Fully virtualisable CPUs | Date | Wed, 11 Sep 96 10:38:10 PDT | From | Craig Milo Rogers <> |
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>> Hmmm... if AMD or Cyrix were to offer this as an architectural >> extension, I bet they'd sell a *lot* of chips to Linux users. Maybe >> it could be done in a way that doesn't require much kernel support >> beyond what's already in place for DOSEMU, too. > >The problem is, that this would probably break Win3, Win95, WinNT, ...
I wouldn't want AMD, etc. to offer this <i>instead</i> of the current VM86 mode, but <i>in addition</i> to VM86 mode. Just another feature bit in a register somewhere... :-)
Craig Milo Rogers
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