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|    mutazilah@gmail.com to muta...@gmail.com    |
|    Re: PDOS/86    |
|    06 May 23 02:25:59    |
      From: muta...@gmail.com              On Sunday, April 30, 2023 at 9:19:23 PM UTC+8, muta...@gmail.com wrote:              > > >> the 66 "may"        > > >> be ignored by 8086/88, could be an alias for other as well.        > > >        > > > How can it be an alias on an 8086?        >        > > would need to remove several layers of dust from my collection        > > of Intel books to check if it is mentioned at all.        > > the code 0x60..group could be alias for 0x70.. or 0x50..        > > similar to 0x82 which is (was until 2000) an alias for 0x80        >        > This question was never resolved.        >        > Someone has appeared who is trying to run PDOS/86 on a        > 360k floppy on his PC AT.        >        > So that's 80286 instead of 8086/88.        >        > 1. Can we get a result from this machine, or does that have        > no bearing on the XT?        >        > 2. If the answer to the above is "yes", can you suggest a test?               Got an answer to this ...              All the 6x opcodes are aliases of the corresponding 7x (conditional jump)       opcodes on 8086 and 8088.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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