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Re: running CP/M-86 images

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>>>>> Peter Dassow <z80eu@arcor.de> writes:
>>>>> On 17.08.2012 21:23, Ivan Shmakov wrote:

[...]

 > (see Wikipedia's "Talk" section).

	ACK, I see.  (Thanks to all the participants for an interesting
	discussion, BTW.)

	JFTR:

--cut: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Boot_sector#Boot_signature --
    [...] Consider for example this Microsft source [1] which makes clear
    that it is the BIOS that first checks for the signature.
    Crispmuncher 02:48, 18 August 2012 (UTC).

 [1] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/149877

      There is BIOS source code online e. g. at [2] which enforces these
      rules: for a hard disk the 0xAA55 signature check is made, while
      for a floppy disk the rule is that the first byte of the boot
      sector must be less [greater or equal -- Matthiaspaul] than 0x06
      and the first 9 words must not all be identical.  While that
      doesn't reveal the distribution of signature checks in modern
      BIOSes, it does provide a latest date for their introduction.
      Ewx (talk) 08:16, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

 [2] http://www.intel-assembler.it/portale/5/ibm-at-286-souce-code/ibm-at-286-souce-code.asp
--cut: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Boot_sector#Boot_signature --

[...]

 >>> I don't know what you have tried, but it seems to be wrong.  I used
 >>> CopyQM with VMWare and an installed MS-DOS 7.1 without any
 >>> problems.

 >> I'm curious, where can one order a copy of MS-DOS 7.1 nowadays?

 > I guess FreeDOS will do it also,

	Actually, I believe it was a QEMU's fault.  I'm reluctant to try
	it on a "real" hardware, so I'd probably try other versions of
	QEMU, or perhaps Bochs.

 > but anyway, I have still an original Windows 98 SE CD, so I can use
 > MS-DOS 7.1 (which is included).

	While I've certainly used some version of DOS until early 1999,
	I was then eager to switch to GNU/Linux, which I deem a
	fortunate choice to this day.

	I've never had a version of Windows installed on my computers,
	and bought no license, either.

[...]

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