Semi-OT: Interesting or unusual PC Compatibles?

[Jim Leonard]

Fred Cisin wrote:
> All early versions of XenoCopy would run on an 8088, but not 8086 or
> above, due to my failure to prepare for a change in the size of the
> pre-fetch buffer.

Wow -- prefetch buffer was only 2 bytes larger in 8086, what in your 
code was dependent on that??  Self-modifying code maybe?
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