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From: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Is the XT dead?
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Date: 29 Sep 89 20:36:09 GMT
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In article <39221@bu-cs.BU.EDU> ngeow@bucsd.bu.edu (Yee Ngeow) writes:
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>Does anybody know if the V20 is compatible with 80186 instructions, using
>the Turbo C Compiler options for 80186/286 instructions? 
>




I don't knwo about Turbo C, but I use the -G2 switch on Microsoft C
all the time with my V20. -G2 causes MSC to generate 80286 code. I have
built a number of programs this way, including STEVIE, MicroEmacs, etc., and
they all work just fine. Therefore I would expect 80186 code to also work (but
haven't actually tried it.).


The only gotcha I know of is that if you are also using floating point anywhere
in your program that the compiler attempts to generate 287 code.