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Background


  
Figure: Overview. This figure illustrates an overview of the Intel family of architectures.The solid underlined features are implemented in Sim286, the dash underlined feature is implemented in Sim386. Sim8088 and Sim286 accept COM input files as input; Sim386 accepts both COM and ELF input files.
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In this section, we provide background for the Intel family of processors that relate to this work; in particular, we overview the processors ranging from the 8086 to the 80386. We also provide background about previous versions of Simx86 simulators including Sim8088[7], and Sim286[4].



 

Michael L. Haungs
1998-09-21