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I don't know offhand what instructions were introduced in Pentium or later.

Doing some googling... 486 had cmpxchg, that's good.

Seems it didn't have rdtsc. It's not out of the question, I might say even pretty common, for user mode code to use that one via inline asm to implement a timer.

Obviously no SIMD instructions. If they say they're supporting 686 or better they might have some compiler flags that depend on mmx or similar? SSE came late to P6.




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