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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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David Sanders wrote:
> 
> Could it perhaps depend on the context the nops appear in?
> 

Almost certainly.  Most likely it's broken in the Virtual PC 
interpreter, but anything that is executed natively works.

	-hpa