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From: simon@ms.uky.edu (Simon Gales)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Re^2: 80186
Message-ID: <10708@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 18 Dec 88 16:31:21 GMT
References: <2618@rti.UUCP> <404@megatek.UUCP> <2623@rti.UUCP> <14319@cisunx.UUCP> <4299@freja.diku.dk>
Reply-To: simon@ms.uky.edu (Simon Gales)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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In article <4299@freja.diku.dk> viggo@freja.diku.dk (Allan Kim Schougaard) writes:
>I would like som verification on this! It is true that V30 can work like an
>80186 but can a V20 ? And can they both work like 80286 ? If will they run
>*OS 2* ?

The 80186 has extra support chips integrated into the same chip, and some of
the 286's nice instructions, but I don't think it has the 'protected' mode
of the 286.  Without it, it cannot run Os/2.

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