Subj : Re: Photographs of your BBS
To   : tenser
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Dec 21 2023 09:59 am

-=> tenser wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 te> Huh.  It's enabled by setting a bit in %cr4, and you can
 te> probe support for it via CPUID.  My guess is that the
 te> ThinkPad CPU probably supported the CR4 bit (and the updated
 te> page table format) but didn't advertise it in the relevant
 te> CPUID leaf; probably an oversight in the BIOS.  :-(

 It turned out that most of the minimalist Linux distros (and NetBSD)
 supported a workaround, so my T42 was able to run for a long time.
 Longer than I thought.



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