Re: Difference between a 386 and a 386sx

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From: Robert Collins
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 1990 14:58

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In article <1310001@hp-ptp.HP.COM> marcb@hp-ptp.HP.COM (Marc Brandis) writes:
>time. Just do a long DWORD string instruction (like STOSD), do it
>once aligned on a dword boundary and once aligned on a word boundary
>but unaligned on a dword boundary (that is at the same address+2).

This will fail on early DX motherboards that used a 286 design (16-bit
data path).



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From: rcollins@altos86.Altos.COM (Robert Collins)
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Subject: Re: Difference between a 386 and a 386sx
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