----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonas Maebe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 2:30 PM Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal]Modifying cpu registers while in turbo pascal interrupt routine ?
> > On 20 mrt 2004, at 03:21, Harald Houppermans wrote: > > > I read at some sites, set test 8086 to zero, some other sites say set > > 8086 > > to one. > > > > The documention of TP says: zero is for 8086, one is for 80286, and > > two is > > for 80386. > > > > A 286 is in fact a 32 bit cpu... limited to 32 mb ram. > > No, the 286 is a 16 bit cpu with a 24 bit address bus (so it can > address 16MB ram, not 32MB). The width of the address bus is > independent of the size of the registers of a cpu. Hmm indeed I was put off by masm's tutorial. It stated a 286 is a protected mode cpu... I thought that automatically ment 32 bit cpu :) _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
