Am 23.01.2014 22:28, schrieb Orchid Win7 v1:
> On 23/01/2014 03:20 PM, Warp wrote:

>> There are many hurdles that you'll encounter. Firstly, you'll need a
>> hard drive that's small and old enough that MS-DOS will actually be able
>> to use it.
>
> I suspect so long as it isn't native 4K sectors, it'll just be reported
> as 2GB.

Bwahaha! Dream on :-P

I might be wrong, but I'd suspect you'll get anything from 2GB down to 
-2GB, depending on whatever value the result overflows to.

>> There are also probably many problems you will encounter
>> due to the fact that your CPU is so damn fast.
>
> Hell yes!

Indeed. IIRC even in the times of the 386DX-50, programs written in 
Turbo Pascal would already occasionally to crash with a division by zero 
right at the start, because in order to calibrate the delay() loop the 
runtime library would run the loop N times, figure out that it took 0 
seconds, and conclude that for 1 second it would need to run the loop 
N/0 times... Whoops!

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