
Originally Posted by
Chuck(G)
...and most significantly, other than speed, you realized none of the advantages (save for the instruction set additions) of a genuine 80286 system (e.g. protected mode with memory segmentation). Compatibility issues were legend.
This reminds me of the person here who managed to upgrade among upgrade to a 486 in a 5150, and get Doom to start, which runs in protected mode, not even sure how it worked.
IBM PS/2 Model 25, NEC V30 8MHz, 640KB RAM, ATI VGA Wonder XL, 2GB SSD, Ethernet, DR DOS 6/GeOS, Xircom PE3 Ethernet
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