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- From: tpradeep@cs.tamu.edu (Pradeep K Tapadiya)
- Subject: Re: Can software be 486-specific?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.153056.7950@tamsun.tamu.edu>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:30:56 GMT
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- From what I know, 486 has six more instructions compared to a 386.
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- My question is, can't each of these instructions be simulated by
- a set of 386 instructions such that the functionality is not lost?
- This way we just need to write a parser which will go through
- the 486 specific executable file looking for these unique
- instructions and replace it with the equivalent set of 386
- instructions, thus producing a 386 specific executable file.
-
- Pradeep
- tpradeep@cs.tamu.edu
-