[Copy and reply-to to port-i386]

> Well, AMD's K6 processors allegedly had a 'native' mode where they
> would fetch 'RISC86' instructions and bypass the emulator.  Newer VIA
> processors have something similar and I wouldn't be surprised if K7
> and K8 CPUs do too, sadly I couldn't get any halfway usable
> information out of AMD, they only mentioned it now and then.

If anyone knows anything about this I'd love to hear more.  My i386
machines are a K6-2 and a K7....

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