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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: VM386? Possible?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.141952.14407@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 14:19:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep1.225633.7494@athena.mit.edu>, hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com (Kevin W. Hammond) writes:
- | When you run a virtual 86 machine, you are only running an 8086 (8088).
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- That's not completely correct. The addressing modes are limited, but
- the 32 bit instructions still work, and I believe the extra seg regs are
- also available. It's sort of a hybred mode. I used to run fract286
- (pre-fractint) under VP/ix, and a few of my own things which did 32 bit
- register stuff, so I'm sure it doesn't really look like an 8086.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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