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Date:      Mon, 19 Jan 1998 23:14:43 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu, mike@smith.net.au
Cc:        emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, rhh@ct.picker.com, shmit@erols.com
Subject:   Re: DOSCMD: Problems w/ Quicken
Message-ID:  <199801191214.XAA12141@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Yeah, that's all fine, but what I *don't* understand is why it should 
>be trapping as it does claiming that 'movw (%bx),%ax' is an illegal 
>instruction.

When %bx = 0xffff, it should cause exception 13 (general protection)
in real mode.  IIRC, this is one of the main differences between 8086's
and later86's in real mode.

Bruce
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