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A number of legacy software programs developed with Borland Turbo Pascal 5.x would work fine on Intel 8088 (IBM PC, PCjr, PC/XT, Turbo XT clones), 8086 (a few high-end XT clones), 80188, 80186, 80286 (PC/AT), 386, 486, and Pentium pre-MMX, and even Pentium MX up to a certain release. After that, such programs would crash with a Division By Zero era if launched on a Pentium MMX past that release, Pentium II, Pentium !!!, and Pentium 4, and, of course, Xeons. Not sure about the Pentium Pro. Borland did release a patch to correct the problem, but it would have to be applied to each such compiled program.

The same programs work fine on ANY AMD that I know of, WITHOUT the patch.

This means that AMD CPUs are, at least in this regard, actually MORE compatible with legacy Intel CPUs than Intel's OWN newer CPUs are!
Posted by: Joel R   Posted on: 03/07/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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