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fascinating Plain DOS 2 Core Demo.

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First post, by MarkDastedt

Posted on Yesterday, 08:37

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Hello, id like to share this source of an old dos multicore Demo.

https://pastebin.com/9sgW9dVu
and its assembler startu code
https://pastebin.com/3rG2eiWD

i found this on an old dvd that was part of company assignments. it seems to be a demo of multicore use in plain dos.
im not a programmerso i dont know where to post this the nerd way but it contained a binary and it at least does not crash and prints a heartbeat.
enjoy
Mark Dastedt

Reply 1 of 4, by myne

Posted on Today, 03:48

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Very interesting.
I wonder if sbemu/other quasi-emulators might find this useful...?

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Reply 2 of 4, by MarkDastedt

Posted on Today, 10:02

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Lets hope it will be for someone. multi core use in Dos would be great feature...

Reply 3 of 4, by BitWrangler

Posted on Today, 15:05

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Quick, buy up all the slot 1, 370 and socket A dual boards before someone figures out how to do Voodoo emulation on 2nd CPU. 🤣

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Reply 4 of 4, by myne

Posted on Today, 15:41

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I'm running an i3 with reasonable success in w98.
At 3ghz I probably don't really need to offload the sound, but I wouldn't say no to a virtual voodoo if it has the grunt.
That said, if picogus could magically become firmware of sorts that talks IRQs, io etc and to the hda, it might drag the "to new" curve up a few years.

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