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From: ngeow@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Yee Ngeow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: V20 compatibility with Intel (Was:  Re: Is the XT dead?)
Message-ID: <39398@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 3 Oct 89 13:54:59 GMT
References: <25281C37.2028@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
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In article <25281C37.2028@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) writes:
>   The 186 instruction set is a subset of the 286's, so if 286 code works, so
>will 186 (and in fact, I'm certian that 186 code works; however, I didn't
>realize 286 code did too.  But why should I care?  I have a 286)
>
>As far as I know, the V20 and V30 don't have protected mode, so they wouldn't
>be able to run OS/2.
>
Flipping through the pages of PC Resource, Oct issue, I saw a XT laptop
compatible using a NEC-V40 Chip. What is this chip? Is it pin compatible
with the 8088? Are there anymore NEC V Chips? Like a V-50???

Thanks in advance, 
Kwong

>-- 
>Stephen M. Dunn                         cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
>        = "\nI'm only an undergraduate!!!\n";
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