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From: mnrausch@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Martin Rausche)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal 6.0 code generation for 80286
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.123859.22299@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 26 Mar 91 12:38:59 GMT
References: <1991Mar26.010615.1@rulcri.leidenuniv.nl>
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany
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vereijken@rulcri.leidenuniv.nl (Jan Joris Vereijken) writes:

>Hi,
> 
>I have run into something very strange: under Turbo Pascal one can choose to
>generate specific 80286 code ($G+ switch). This code is not supposed to run on
>XT-like (8088/8086-based) machines. However, it seems to do...
> 
>Facts:
> 
>   - My system is  V30-based clone, using a BIOS called "PC-SPEED V1.50"
>[some stuff deleted]
>   - All the above programs ran like a charm on my V30 machine!
> 
>[some stuff deleted]
>
>Thanx!
> 
>- Jan Joris -
> 
>forchk@rullf2.LeidenUniv.NL
>vereijken@hlerul5.bitnet
> 
>(P.S.: Reply to me personally too, as I do not subscribe to this list.)
> 
TP6.0 generates code for the 80286, but it uses only the real mode extensions
of the 80286. The NEC-V30 chip can deal with this instructions. There is no
mystery. Have fun. Martin.
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| Martin Rausche                                                              |
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