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From: add@sciences.sdsu.edu (James D. Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel,alt.lang.asm
Subject: Re: Need help in porting 8088/286 assembly code to 386.
Message-ID: <1991Jun29.155307.762@sciences.sdsu.edu>
Date: 29 Jun 91 15:53:07 GMT
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Organization: San Diego State University, College of Sciences
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suitti@ima.isc.com (Stephen Uitti) writes:
> 
> My guess is that if the code ran on an 8088, it should run
> reasonably quickly on a '386 without changes.  The 386/25 on my
> desk runs 20 times faster than my 8088/4.77 at home.  Can an
> additional 10%-50% going to buy anyone anything?
> 
	Optimization is not the point.  I need to execute 16-bit, segmented
code under an operating system that runs 32-bit, flat-model code only.  The
conversion is necessary to have the code run at all.

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