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Can someone like... boot Windows 98 on these on a system with no ram?!

• rldjbpin 6mo ago
  or an older version of puppy linux?
• bell-cot 6mo ago
  Conceptually - yes, easily. But to do it literally - I'm not a low-level motherboard EE, but I'd bet you're looking at 5 to 7 figures (US $) of engineering work, to get around all the ways in which that would violate assumptions baked into the designs of the CPU, support chips, firmwares, etc.
  • ggm 6mo ago
    Make a fake ram which offers write through guarantee and returns bus no matter what address is referenced. You could possibly short circuit any "is ram there" test if it just says yes for whatever size and stride got configured.
  • anticensor 6mo ago
    The CPU literally initialises itself without DDR then initialises the DDR PHY, there must be a way of keeping the CPU in that "cache as RAM" mode.
• brandnewideas 6mo ago
  Theoretically anything is possible with enough thought and work.