From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stas Sergeev Subject: Re: dosemu on x86_64 Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 07:51:24 +0400 Message-ID: <4292A4BC.1030205@aknet.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org Hello. Paul Lyon wrote: > Did AMD just not include the microcode or > hardware support for shifting to virtual 8086 mode from 64 bit mode? AMD answers your question here: http://www.x86-64.org/lists/discuss/msg03333.html > If they don't manage to restore this feature, that may keep me from > buying an Opteron motherboard for rather a while. One can't always depend on the legacy things. v86 can't live forever.