In a message dated 08-06-15, mark lewis said to Mike Luther:   
      
   Hi Mark and Mike,   
      
    RN>>> Have it and it won't boot.  That's probably because of the Intel 3G   
    RN>>> 3G processor (G2030).   
      
    HG>> That is surprising. I don't understand why/how a processor can   
    HG>> influence the autoboot process.   
      
    ml>> because it may not support some of the old machine language   
    ml>> instructions...   
      
   ml>  MikeL> Precisely correct!  It all goes back to even ring level.   
   ml> multiple   
   ml>  MikeL> CPU's even up tp sixteen of them and even machine language   
   ml> plus   
   ml>  MikeL> assembly language that is involved with everything even   
   ml> through   
   ml>  MikeL> Warp 4.52.  I think most folks never really had access to   
   ml> all this   
   ml>  MikeL> unless they were a valid member of the OS/2 Developer Group   
   ml> and   
   ml>  MikeL> were getting all of the update mess mostly step by step, but   
   ml> even   
   ml>  MikeL> at that time not always without missing one or getting your   
   ml> hoofee   
   ml>  MikeL> poked by an unknown nail when you stepped on it! And went   
   ml> crying   
   ml>  MikeL> over it to the 'crew' and got even your footsee patched up.   
      
   ml> the way that i'm aware of it is that many virtual machine emulators   
   ml> also do not recognise the machine language instructions that OS/2   
   ml> uses to boot with... i'm not aware of any way to make then emulate   
   ml> older CPUs either... i'm just aware that OS/2 pretty much cannot be   
   ml> run in most machine emulators and this machine instruction problem   
   ml> is the reason...   
      
   Thanks for enlightening me and sorry for the chopping of the lines that   
   my QWK reader made above.   
      
      
   Have a good night,   
      
   Holger   
      
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