On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 01:30:48PM +0000, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > Heh I've actually been using isapc over the past couple of weeks to fire up > some old programs in a Windows 3 VM :) I'm wondering why these use cases can't simply use the 'pc' machine type? The early pci chipsets of the 90-ies have been designed in a backward-compatible manner, with devices such as the IDE controller being mapped to the standard ISA ioports. So even an historic OS which does not know what PCI is can run on that hardware, by simply talking to devices using the standard ISA io ports ... take care, Gerd _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
