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From: mg@Apple.COM (Mark Gorlinsky)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Will 386bsd run for Pentium machine without pain?
Message-ID: <78672@apple.apple.COM>
Date: 12 Feb 93 19:06:55 GMT
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In article <1993Feb12.042349.18579@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
>Question: does the pentium have memory block move instruction?
>This could be useful for doing bitmap block transfers to
>a vga card...

All of the iX86 cpus have memory block move instructions. The pentium is
part of this family and therefore has them too.

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