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From: steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: VP/ix and Merge instruction sets (Was: Re: Can protected mode...)
Message-ID: <16784@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 26 Nov 89 21:42:34 GMT
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Reply-To: steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia)
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In article <128383@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> plocher@sun.UUCP (John Plocher) writes:
>No, DosMerge and VP/ix both run DOS in a virtual 8086 environment.

What about the 32 bit instructions?  If one is content to live with
the memory architecture of an 8086 can one generate code with 32 bit
arithmetic instrucitons and such?
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