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I recently found a 386 emulator called 86Box, a fork of the earlier version of PCEm. Because I'm a real programmer™, I build the master branch from its Git source on a macOS Ventura. How I build it from sources will be the subject of a new article. B...
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This is an odd article. I don't understand a lot of it.
Firstly, you say that you are running an emulator:
OK. Then there are many paragraphs about hardware.
So which is it? All the stuff about sockets, slots and so on -- much of it wrong, by the way -- is 100% fiction. Why bother?
What it looks like, or how it looks. Not both.
It's an emulator. It doesn't look like this at all. Why?
"ado" is a word. No caps.
PCI slots. PIC is something different. But none of this is true. There is no hardware. Why this flight of fancy? It's not only lies, it's totally irrelevant.
Two slots. EDO RAM is a type of memory. One that only works on Pentiums with an Intel Triton chipset, by the way.
Not true. You can boot from floppy. The CD includes an image of a floppy but you can download one anyway.
No it isn't.
It's not fully 32-bit. It's a hybrid OS with 16-bit parts.
It's not the first.
The first full 32-bit OS was NT 3.1, which was 2 years earlier.
Do consumers want programming? Do they need it? (BTW, to the consumer, or to consumers.)
Your bio says:
Is that fiction, too? You don't seem to really know this stuff to me.
If you are using an emulator, drop all the fictional BS about hardware. All those words and pics: not a single line is true. Why waste our time?
Tell us the truth. Tell us about the emulator.
Or, use real hardware, and write about that.
As it is, 75% of this post is pure fantasy and what's left gets critical facts wrong.