Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!smsdpg!seg From: seg@smsdpg.uu.net (Scott Garfinkle) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: v01i016: fract386, creates fractal display v2.1 (part 01/02) Message-ID: <123@smsdpg.uu.net> Date: 29 Nov 88 16:10:02 GMT References: <588@ctisbv.UUCP> Organization: SMS Data Products Group, Reston VA Lines: 14 From article <588@ctisbv.UUCP>, by pim@ctisbv.UUCP (Pim Zandbergen): > .... >> 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? Apparently, VP/ix kindly gives your virtual 8086 copies of the 32 bit registers to play with, too; fract386 doesn't do any strange and wonderful things with the virtual memory, it just does 64 bit arithmetic. Scott E. Garfinkle SMS Data Products Group, Inc. uunet!smsdpg!seg