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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Re^2: 80186 ... and NEC v20
Message-ID: <15893@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 18 Dec 88 17:18:39 GMT
Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (RAMontante)
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viggo@freja.diku.dk (Allan Kim Schougaard) writes:
>
>>Turbo C -- just set the code generation for 80186/80286.
>
>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* ?

(My understanding is that the v20 and v30 are related just as the 8088
and 8086 are:  differing only in data-bus width.)

I have compiled various programs (microemacs v3.9e being the largest)
under TurboC's 80186/80286 option, and they work fine on my v20-equipped
Z-158.  The improvement in size and speed is small, but positive.

I've stopped doing that routinely, as I was giving code to others and
having it break for "mysterious" reasons.  Eventually I remembered that
80186 option ("oops. hehheh...")