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Starting work on disambiguating PCjs the emulator from PCjs the project/website; the emulator will become PCx86

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@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ performance improvements were tested before being merged back into the main bran
Another branch was **FOOTBALL** (aka **PIGSKIN**), an early 80386-based prototype intended to test the viability
of the running multiple DOS applications in V86-mode. Sometimes this 80386 version was also called **386DOS**,
to distinguish it from **286DOS**. More details are in this
[FOOTBALL Design Document](/disks/pc/os2/misc/football/87058/#football-design-document).
[FOOTBALL Design Document](/disks/pcx86/os2/misc/football/87058/#football-design-document).
To shed some light on those efforts, I recently added a few [OS/2 Prototype Disks](/disks/pc/os2/misc/): a small
To shed some light on those efforts, I recently added a few [OS/2 Prototype Disks](/disks/pcx86/os2/misc/): a small
collection of early (mostly pre-1.0) OS/2 boot disks that provide a glimpse of what some of those early OS/2 builds
looked like.
@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Getting these early versions of OS/2 to run in **PCjs** has been a bit of a chal
but also some lingering issues. Debugging continues.
Part of the problem is that these pre-1.0 builds still contain a few bugs. Also, the original
[OS/2 FOOTBALL Boot Disk](/disks/pc/os2/misc/football/87058/) from February 1987 was developed and
[OS/2 FOOTBALL Boot Disk](/disks/pcx86/os2/misc/football/87058/) from February 1987 was developed and
tested exclusively on Compaq DeskPro 386 machines from late 1986, so it has some uncommon 80386 dependencies:
* The [80386 LOADALL](/pubs/pc/reference/intel/80386/loadall/) instruction