V20 trivia (was: WTD: NEC V20 Hardware Manual, IBM PC schematics

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Wed Mar 12 22:53:00 2003

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Peter C. Wallace wrote:
> > Did the V20 have the INSB/INSW/OUTSB/OUTSW instructions? (present in
> > 80186/80188, but not 8086/8088
> Yep... We made use of them in the V40 that we used for many years in embedded
> Stuff. Plus the V40 has (had?) a really nice DMA controller.

V40.
NOT V20.

If it had the DMA controller then, then it presumably still does :-)

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Grumpy Ol' Fred        cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Wed Mar 12 2003 - 22:53:00 GMT

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