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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: V20 vs. 8088: Is there any useful difference?
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Date: 16 Jul 89 18:56:16 GMT
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Correction, there is a V40, it has an architecture similiar to the 80286, but
it is not machine language compatable with the 80286.  I don't know what NEC
had to gain by designing such a beast, but they did.  The V40 also has a real
V30 mode, etc.  If NEC did what I think they did, I believe you don't have to
reset the V40 to get it in and out of protect mode as you have to with a real
80286.  I would have loved to have seen the V40 as a 100% 80286 replacement,
but unfortunately it is not.

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