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From: jsb@advdev.LBP.HARRIS.COM (Jeff Barber)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: v01i016: fract386, creates fractal display v2.1 (part 01/02)
Keywords: fract386, VP/ix
Message-ID: <6585@galbp.LBP.HARRIS.COM>
Date: 29 Nov 88 14:30:20 GMT
References: <588@ctisbv.UUCP>
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Reply-To: jsb@advdev.UUCP (Jeff Barber)
Organization: Lanier/Harris, Atlanta, GA
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In article <588@ctisbv.UUCP> pim@ctisbv.UUCP (Pim Zandbergen) writes:
>> It needs a 386 machine as it uses assembler coded 32 bit arithmetic for
>> speed.
>
>This is funny, fract386 runs just fine under VP/ix with SCO Xenix.
>VP/ix emulates a 8086 pc. Can anybody explain this?

VP/ix uses the 386's "Virtual 8086 Mode" to emulate an 8086 pc.
The new 32-bit (non-protected-mode) instructions are still available though
as are the new segment registers (FS and GS).

J. Barber              Lanier Business Systems              Atlanta, GA

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