On Dec 11, Nathan Gelbard wrote
> Friend of mine lent me a PowerPC G3 with the addon Pentium board. ;)
> So i booted to dos and switched between MacOS and DOS on 2 monitors -
> rather cool.
> 
> Stress test time. Pulled out a i386 1.3.2 boot floppy and gave it a whirl
> - ye gods, it actually worked.
>

I don't know how this is supposed to work. Does the i386 have direct access
to the hardware, or is hardware emulated by the powerPC ?
In the former case, how are sumultaneous access to the hardware handled ?
In the later, I guess the powerPC would emulate an IDE disk ...

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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