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   Mark Hofmann to Mark Lewis   
   Re: Installing OS/2   
   04 Dec 15 18:58:55   
   
   ml> the way that i'm aware of it is that many virtual machine emulators also   
   ml> do not recognise the machine language instructions that OS/2 uses to boot   
   ml> with... i'm not aware of any way to make then emulate older CPUs   
   ml> either... i'm just aware that OS/2 pretty much cannot be run in most   
   ml> machine emulators and this machine instruction problem is the reason...   
      
   You can always run OS/2 or eCS in a VM.  From my experience, the only thing   
   that won't work is the HPFS.  You need to use either FAT (gasp) or JFS.  JFS   
   is in the new eCS builds and works perfectly in a VM.   
      
   - Mark   
      
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