8086 (was Re: more talking to the press.)

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_conman.org>
Date: Sat Nov 15 19:49:57 2003

It was thus said that the Great Fred N. van Kempen once stated:
>
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
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> > I don't think there were any opcode difference between the 8086 and 8088,
> > but there was a prefetch queue length difference that was easily testable
> > with some self-modifying code.
> I meant between the V20 and the 8088.

  Oh. The V20 supported 80186 opcodes (two being pusha and popa if I
recall).

  -spc (Been maybe 8-10 years since I've done serious assembly work)
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