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NASM version 2.09 available | 8086 is COOOOL (Announce)

posted by ecm Homepage E-mail, Düsseldorf, Germany, 07.09.2010, 18:53

> > Considering the huge improvements in 80186 :-D

And don't forget all the useful instructions added to the x86 instruction set with the famous 286! There's a lot of DOS software optimized for 286s! Oh wait it's the mistake of the programmers that state such non-sense, these instructions were added to the instruction set by the 186. (Because most programmers never bothered to check for the correct CPU before executing opcodes restricted to specific instruction sets, their documentation mistake doesn't hurt much anyway.) Although actual 186 chips might not have been used much in PCs, the NEC V20 and V30 had the 186 instruction set too.

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