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From: john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Comparing 486 to 386 Systems
Message-ID: <1991Apr14.230407.5019@jwt.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 91 23:04:07 GMT
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In article <3669@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <1991Apr6.045408.15395@agate.berkeley.edu> c60b-1eq@e260-1d.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) writes:
>| The 386 can split itself into four concurrent 8086's

>May I commend to you rereading the section on the virtual 8086 mode.

This is the second time I've seen someone claim there was a limit of four
virtual machines in V86 mode.  I wonder where this particular urban legend
got its start?  Does one of the DOS multitaskers have a limit of four
concurrent tasks?
-- 
John W. Temples -- john@jwt.UUCP (uunet!jwt!john)