Do you plan to provide 80286 or 80386 CPU's?There is no chance that we would provide an 80386 CPU emulation on the current ARM based Nokia and Psion products. It would be a lot slower than the current 80186 emulation, and would also take up more space on disk and in memory. It is possible that we would release an 80286 version of XTM - the 80286 emulation would run a little slower than the current 80186 product but may increase software compatibility. However, you should note that the reason many programs need an 80286 or 80386 processor is because they need more memory space than they can access using the 1 megabyte address space of the basic 80186 architecture. Adding an 80286 CPU emulation will not add any RAM to your Nokia or Psion machine, and we would not be able to support very much extended memory in XTM. This will limit the number of programs that can benefit from an 80286 version of XTM.
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