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echo: 80xxx
to: PETER MAGNUSSON
from: DARRYL GREGORASH
date: 1997-12-23 13:22:00
subject: pure Hex Programming

Replying to a message of Peter Magnusson to Scott McNay:
 SM>> It's 100% compatible
 PM> Way... I didn't know they EVER made a processor
 PM> 100% compatible with another. There's often
 PM> some small diffrences in undocummented or
 PM> even docummented instructions & features, right?
Any differences in teh instructions are bugs.. 
 PM> I mean, don't most cpu-detections that don't use
 PM> CPUID use that?
 PM> No expert on the subject, just seen a few code
 PM> samples and glimbsed (wrong spelling?) at www.x86.org
 PM> (not that I claim to have quoted them in any sense)
 SM>> I don't recall which.  Anyway, the part that surprised me
 SM>> what that IBM made PS/2's that used an 808x CPU.
 PM> Oh, that must have been a long time ago ... ?
 PM> [peter]
 PM> -!- FMail 1.02
 PM>  ! Origin: Server*7GB* D0S.0S2.WiN USR33600 0300-13564
 PM> (2:203/253)
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