Subj : Re: CPU Hog
To   : fusion
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Tue Aug 09 2022 19:52:00

-=> On 08-08-22 19:49, fusion wrote to Nightfox <=-

 fu> On 08 Aug 2022, Nightfox said the following...

 Ni> As far as I can tell, NTVDM64 is meant to work on 64-bit Intel/AMD
 Ni> processors. Where did you see that it was for PowerPC?

 fu> an excerpt from the ntvdm wiki:

 fu> Since virtual 8086 mode is not available on non-x86-based processors
 fu> (more specifically, MIPS, DEC Alpha, and PowerPC) NTVDM was instead
 fu> implemented as a full emulator in these versions of NT, using code
 fu> licensed from Insignia's SoftPC.

I was led to believe that it was possible to create a DOS VM, using the
hardware virtualisation capabilities of modern processors, so theoretically
there is a way around the lack of virtual 8086 mode in 64 bit mode at the
hardware level, if I'm right.


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