> 8088 isn't the same as 8086. It's similar, but internally, the 8088 is > different than the 8086, Which is pretty much nonsense. The 8088 has an external 8 bit data bus, the 8086 has 16 bit. That's all the difference. Programs execute identical, except for performance.
> so that might influence the > capabilities of the program. You'll need to emulate a straight 8086 to get > the full picture as to whether it can handle them or not. Nope. > the 8088 chips (at least the nec V20 my xt machine had) The NEC V20 was intended to run the 80186 instruction set, at somewhat higher frequency. So in your strict definition the NEC V20 is not a 8088, but a superset of it. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
