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Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support (Announce)

posted by KormaX, 29.05.2023, 23:52

> So this is
> the last goodbye to x86 then only emulators and VM. There may be not much
> differences running a dosbox or Qemu on x64 or ARM or RiscV or something
> else...

I don't think so. As long as VT-X exists, it only takes a new type of VMM to make X64s x86 compatible again. Most of you run your DOS in v86 already, so what's the difference. For me, it's like a race, like whether they can deprecate services faster than we can come up with their replacements. To be honest, I kind of enjoy the game and it has been so for decades: as PC's support for DOS shrinks, DOS' support for PC grows. What's more, I rarely see any practical reason of using DOS, it's mostly a "because I can" thing, tbh. Now, thanks to UEFI class 3 we already need to have our own BIOS anyway and I don't see what chages if it has to include a VT-X VMM in this case. It would even make writing drivers easier, I mean, make it less a pain in the a** than it is to make them work in v86 and be compatible with everything.

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Complete thread:

• Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support - marcov, 25.05.2023, 11:59 (Announce)
  • Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support - Rugxulo, 27.05.2023, 03:17
    • Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support - DosWorld, 27.05.2023, 08:18
      • Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support - tkchia, 27.05.2023, 13:03
        • Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support - marcov, 28.05.2023, 12:59
          • Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support - tkchia, 28.05.2023, 15:27
      • Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support - alexfru, 31.05.2023, 02:22
        • kill AVX instead - Rugxulo, 01.06.2023, 03:07
          • kill AVX instead - marcov, 01.06.2023, 13:36
        • Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support - RayeR, 06.06.2023, 13:48
    • Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support - marcov, 28.05.2023, 12:58
  • Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support - RayeR, 27.05.2023, 13:10
    • Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support - KormaX, 29.05.2023, 23:52
      • Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support - RayeR, 30.05.2023, 01:42
        • Intel's X86-S ISA specification document - RayeR, 06.06.2023, 07:25
  • Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support - glennmcc, 30.05.2023, 22:19