My, what strange NOPs you have!

Raymond Chen January 12, 2011 Jan 12, 2011 01/12/11

While cleaning up my office, I ran across some old documents which reminded me that there are a lot of weird NOP instructions in Windows 95. Certain early versions of the 80386 processor (manufactured prior to 1987) are known as B1 stepping chips. These early versions of the 80386 had some obscure bugs that affected Windows. For ...