8088 vs. 80c88

[Ethan Dicks]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
> V20 emulation mode was enough of a problem that we eventually
> disabled it in 22NICE.  x86 machines were getting powerful enough
> that software emulation was faster anyway.  We could also do things
> in software emulation that we couldn't do in V20 mode, such as trap
> I/O accesses and redirect them to user-written servicers.

I understand wanting to minimize user frustration, but back in the day
(1991?), I did stick a V20 in my XT clone specifically to run 22NICE
to run the CP/M versions of the Scott Adams games (since those were
the easiest versions to find at the time).  For what I was doing, it
worked great.

-ethan