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From: alexande@drivax.UUCP (Mark Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Japanese 32-bit CPUs ( NEC V70 )
Message-ID: <1494@drivax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7-May-87 14:21:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: drivax.1494
Posted: Thu May  7 14:21:51 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 9-May-87 18:07:12 EDT
References: <3810030@nucsrl.UUCP> <491@necis.UUCP>
Reply-To: alexande@drivax.UUCP (Mark Alexander)
Organization: Bob-ist Temple of Monterey
Lines: 12
Summary: It DOES have 8086 mode (yech)

In article <491@necis.UUCP> geo@necis.UUCP (George Aguiar ext. 219) writes:

>I have  some preliminary specs on the V70...
>It's not iAPX386 compatible...

It does, however, have a virtual 8086 mode, kinda-sorta like
the 386, but a little bit easier to work with (mainly because
there are still a LOT of registers left over after you take
away those that are mapped to 8086 registers).
-- 
Mark Alexander	...{hplabs,seismo,sun,ihnp4}amdahl!drivax!alexande
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