Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [off-topic] Fully virtualisable CPUs | Date | Sat, 07 Sep 96 12:26:41 PDT | From | Craig Milo Rogers <> |
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>> On the intel chips instructions that report the CPU state don't cause >> an exception. Pity as if they did we could conceivably just boot windows95 >> or nt or OS/2 or whatever in a window (and vice versa). >Hmm, that's not a very big difference (well it may be in silicon, but I >don't think it's to big), they still could do that in the next round of >P5/P6/P...'s ;).
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.
Craig Milo Rogers
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