Messages in this thread |  | | From | Orion <> | Subject | Re: [off-topic] Fully virtualisable CPUs | Date | Sun, 08 Sep 1996 18:58:24 -0700 |
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Alan Cox wrote: >
> 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). > > Alan
Forgive my ignorance in these matters, but is it possible that this can ever change in the x86 architecture? Possibly when we make the jump to a 64-bit run mode instead of 32-bit?
-- Jared in Redmond, WA jared@isysg.com
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