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Subject: Re: Re: RISC (really on multiplication d
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Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 19:33:00 EDT
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Jon,

The 8086 / 80186 do NOT produce same magnitude results from multiplication
and division. AX is mulitiplied by the operand and the result is left in
DX:AX. This is 32 bits, not the original 16 that the operands are!

Peter Barada
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