8088 vs. 80c88

Jim Leonard trixter at oldskool.org
Fri Feb 20 18:59:17 CST 2009


Chuck Guzis wrote:
> It's also worthwhile to mention that the V20/30 has instructions that 
> none of the Intel x86 members has, such as packed BCD string 
> arithmetic.

I have never found a decent resource on NEC V20 special opcode 
programming; the only stuff I've found has been on how to detect an NEC 
through bugs, and searching via google has been unproductive for the 
last 20 minutes.  Is there a resource for what the extended instructions 
were, or is that lost to paper history?
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