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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: VP/ix and Merge instruction sets (Was: Re: Can protected mode...)
Message-ID: <1782@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 27 Nov 89 16:48:52 GMT
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Reply-exos:@crdgw1:To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)

In article <16784@nuchat.UUCP> steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia) writes:

| 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?

  Sure. FRACTINT does, and PKZIP seems to.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon