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<andlabs>
well that was by then a part of x86 itself so
<andlabs>
they could have dropped it but I imagine that would be hell on BIOSes and bootloaders
<andlabs>
and Intel did give you an option to not have the A20 gate, but with one massive asterisk that renders it practically useless for period desktops https://www.pagetable.com/?p=460
<andlabs>
(and unacceptable for modern dekstops lol)
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<fseidel>
IIRC A20 gating is is no longer supported as of newer Intel uArches (Haswell?)
<Foone>
I wish a dosimeter measured how much DOS was in something
<natarii>
lol
<sorear>
wouldn't that be a dosometer
<Foone>
it's a typo. if it runs on your apple phone, it's a DOS iMeter
<andlabs>
would be nice if an atari transpute ever shows up on ebay lol
<andlabs>
a broken a1060 sidecare showed up yesterday and of course someone took it by now
<andlabs>
those things cant be as rare as they seem but almost everything on ebay is oveprriced anyway
<andlabs>
someone did list briefly one of those transmeta x86 simulated computers from the late 90s at one point but took the listing down shortly afterward boo
<Foone>
those are neat
<Foone>
there's a cool project where someone figured out part of their microcode by exploiting a broken network card to steal their secret RAM
<natarii>
ooo
<sorear>
i love how "microcode" is never used twice to mean the same thing
<Foone>
that's why it's called that. it stands for Never Twice Same Code
<cr1901_modern>
GDI Foone
<andlabs>
lol
<andlabs>
Foone: neat
<andlabs>
also ~ stealing from linus torvalds ~ I guess because he worked there for a long time in the late 90s/throughout the 00s
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