On 12/19/2018 04:09 AM, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote:
Unless the software is really weird and relies on something weird like undocumented side-effects of the 286 CPU or 8 bit ISA DMA[0], this may be a way forwards to keeping it running when that crusty old Pentium finally croaks.
I've run into more than a few things that aren't happy with emulation. I know AIX for PS/2 is looking for something at PS/2 specific memory addresses related to hardware.
I've also had a number of problems with different hypervisors emulating different types of hardware that older OSs are happy (enough) with. Things like IDE / SCSI / sound / network controllers.
-- Grant. . . . unix || die
