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Old 15th Oct 2006, 20:20
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IO540
 
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I think all these chips do run the basic 8086 code though.

That's where AMD stole the market share from Intel: maintaining backward compatibility with 80x86 opcodes. Intel tried to go in a different direction, but as soon as you can't run good ole Windoze (especially the bootleg copies that most of the world is running) you consign yourself to a very niche market (commercial servers, basically).
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