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echo: 80xxx
to: SYLVAIN LAUZON
from: DARRYL GREGORASH
date: 1997-12-09 14:27:00
subject: Hex code of asm

Replying to a message of Sylvain Lauzon to All:
 EB>> spread out over more than one byte.  For example, 0Fh is a
 EB>> prefix for a number of different instructions.  Looking at
 EB>> it in debug, as you've suggested, would lead one to
 EB>> falsely conclude that there is no valid instruction that
 EB>> begins with 0Fh.  
 SL> because debug display only 8086 instructions set. But it
 SL> does execute correctly unknown code.
That is because it is the CPU, and *not* debug, that is executing the code.
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