*updating* 8088's

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Tuesday 20 November 2007 21:00, Jim Leonard wrote:
> The only thing I can think of that might substantiate this claim is when
> you were working with 32-bit registers in 16-bit DOS.  Each instruction
> needed a 66h or 67h prefix opcode to indicate 32-bit.  This was wasteful
> on a 386sx because the 16-bit memory interface ate more time fetching
> the additional opcodes than you were saving by using 32-bit registers
> (!).

This is one of the things that's always bugged me about those "extra" z80 
instructions...

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