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The extra instructions were mostly fine, the NEC V20/V30 implemented them too, the 186 had built-in peripheral functions like timers and the interrupt controlle
by rjsw 6y ago
The extra instructions were mostly fine, the NEC V20/V30 implemented them too, the 186 had built-in peripheral functions like timers and the interrupt controller that were different to those in a PC.
You couldn't use the array bound check instruction as it used the interrupt used by the PC BIOS for Print Screen.
- jandrese 6y agoThat is a hilarious limitation. I can just see someone building a test program to try it out and wondering why his printer is suddenly spitting out screenshots.
- anyfoo 6y agoI was going to say "that's now how it works", but actually, thinking about it... I think that's exactly what would happen, heh?