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>     One way in which you could tell the difference between an 8088
>and an 8086 (and probably between an 80188 and an 80186, but I've never
>seen any documentation for either chip) is to take advantage of the
>instruction prefetch queue.  The 8088 has a five byte prefetch que,
					     ^^^^^^^^^
>the 8086 an 8 byte prefetch queue.  So if you wrote a self modifying
	     ^^^^^^
>program that did something like replace a set carry flag instruction
>six bytes ahead with a clear carry flag instruction, you could then
>do a branch on carry to appropriate routines for each processor.
>
>Mark Nelson

I belive those are 4 bytes and 6 bytes, if I'm not mistaken. I don't have my
PC Tech Journal handy.
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