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From: hooper@leadsv.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Strange 8086 CPU clones.
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Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 11:14:15 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  8 11:14:15 1987
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Summary: What does it do with a bad opcode?


  Excuse my intensity, but I have valiantly searched every Intel, Harris, etc.
manual and data book I could find in search of this answer:

WHAT DOES THE *@^&%%#% 8086 DO WITH A BAD OPCODE?

  I know that the 80186 and above have a dedicated trap vector for this. I also
know that the 8080 family generally does something undocumented (a `feature'?).
					Thanks in advance,
							   Desperate