Path: utzoo!censor!geac!yunexus!maccs!cs4g6ag
From: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: V20 compatibility with Intel (Was:  Re: Is the XT dead?)
Keywords: when we get _this_ far off topic, let's change the subject line.
Message-ID: <25281C37.2028@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 3 Oct 89 02:40:55 GMT
Reply-To: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
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In article <39315@bu-cs.BU.EDU> ngeow@cs.bu.edu (Yee Ngeow) writes:
$>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. I would expect 80186 code to also work (but
$>haven't actually tried it.).

   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)


$Hmmm.. Since V-20 runs 286 instructions, does that mean it can use the
$protected mode to run OS/2 also? Probably not, but I am really curious.


  As far as I know, the V20 and V30 don't have protected mode, so they wouldn't
be able to run OS/2.

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