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From: rcollins@altos86.Altos.COM (Robert Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Difference between a 386 and a 386sx
Message-ID: <4125@altos86.Altos.COM>
Date: 28 Sep 90 14:58:20 GMT
References: <1990Sep16.194605.11968@ecn.purdue.edu> <1310001@hp-ptp.HP.COM>
Reply-To: rcollins@altos86.UUCP (Robert Collins)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA
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In article <1310001@hp-ptp.HP.COM> marcb@hp-ptp.HP.COM (Marc Brandis) writes:
>time. Just do a long DWORD string instruction (like STOSD), do it
>once aligned on a dword boundary and once aligned on a word boundary
>but unaligned on a dword boundary (that is at the same address+2).

This will fail on early DX motherboards that used a 286 design (16-bit
data path).



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