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@ -20,15 +20,6 @@ It predated the completion of OS/2 1.0 by some eight months.
See the original [Design Document](#design-document) describing the **FOOTBALL** prototype.
On boot, the following message is displayed on-screen:
CP-DOS version 1.0
Copyright 1986,1987 Microsoft Corp.
PIGSKIN Internal revision 7.68.17, 87/02/26
This prototype was designed to test two important new features of the Intel 80386 processor: paging and V86-mode.
Most of the work on this prototype occurred between December 1, 1986 and February 28, 1987, with the principal goal
of demonstrating multiple DOS applications running in V86-mode to BillG; that demo probably occurred in March 1987.
However, another underlying goal was to demonstrate to IBM that Microsoft was ahead of the curve on 32-bit design
@ -46,6 +37,13 @@ A directory listing of this disk is provided [below](#directory-of-os2-football-
Booting FOOTBALL
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On boot, the following message is displayed on-screen:
CP-DOS version 1.0
Copyright 1986,1987 Microsoft Corp.
PIGSKIN Internal revision 7.68.17, 87/02/26
{% include machine.html id="deskpro386" %}
When booting on a [Compaq DeskPro 386-16 with 2Mb of RAM](/devices/pc/machine/compaq/deskpro386/ega/2048kb/),