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> Couldn't the kernel provide emulation of the Pentium instructions
> for the 386/486, to solve this problem? I guess it could be done
> since it would be very similar to the FPU emulator.
>
> So the question is mainly: Would it make sense?

Not really. Except for BSWAP the 386/486/586 user mode stuff is basically
all down to how you order instructions and how you align them not to new
instructions


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