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   mutazilah@gmail.com to muta...@gmail.com   
   Re: PDOS/86   
   14 Jul 21 17:36:29   
   
   From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 8:18:41 AM UTC+10, muta...@gmail.com wrote:   
      
   > If it works then the next question is - does the 8086 ignore   
   > x'66' and advance to the next byte? Or can x'66' be trapped   
   > and ignored? Or if it is an alias, what effect does it have,   
   > and can memory be structures to keep that x'66' from   
   > harming anything important?   
      
   And same question for a real 80286. There was no   
   32-bit "other" to worry about.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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