15 Nov
2003
15 Nov
'03
11:40 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great Fred N. van Kempen once stated:
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Fred Cisin wrote:
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.
-spc (Was able to slap a V20 in my PCjr to get about a 10% increase in
speed ... )
Wasn't presence/absence of that bug one of
the tests for presence of the
NEC V30 v intel 8086?
Yes, we had this in Minix to test for V30/X86. Cant member
what
the V20/X88 was, probably a missing opcode.