6 Dec
2009
6 Dec
'09
5:22 p.m.
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
The most significant benefit was that the V20 supports
all of the non-
privileged 80286 instructions, expanding the software possibilities a
bit for old 8-bit PCs.
Yep. For most users, IIRC the most significant benefit of this was
that you could run Windows 3.0 in full VGA mode on an 8086 PC with a
V20 installed. The VGA driver used '286 instructions so this was not
normally possible.
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