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From: chasm@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Charles Marslett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: NEC equivalent of 8086????
Summary: That is the V30
Message-ID: <8710@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 19 Jul 89 14:05:18 GMT
References: <2962@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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In article <2962@uwovax.uwo.ca>, 2014_5001@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
> Is there a NEC equivalent to the 8086?  For instance, can it be that the V30
> is pin-compatible with the 8086??

Certainly is, and it is a more significant upgrade that the 8088->V20.
And as I have mentioned before, you can use the 286 instruction set with
most DOS C compilers (a fairly significant advantage sometimes), and Excel
will run.

>  Alexander Pruss 
>  pruss@uwovax.uwo.ca  pruss@uwovax.BITNET  A5001@nve.uwo.ca

Charles Marslett
chasm@attctc.dallas.tx.us