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Re: AE PC Transporter Questions

On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 8:11:47 PM UTC-5, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, pitz wrote:
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> > And with the V20 having a superset of the 8088 features, you could 
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> > actually run more programs with it than you could with a standard PC-XT.
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> Indeed - the V20 is compatible with a 186, which means almost any code 
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> that needs a 286 and doesn't rely on protected mode should run on it, 
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> provided it doesn't actually check for a 286.
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> -uso.

Sounds great.  Now I just need to find one at a reasonable price.  That's the trick I guess. :)