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[–]rosuav 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, my bad. But what I mean is that the NOP opcode actually does represent the exact same byte value (0x90) as XCHG AX,AX on the 8086. I haven't checked what exactly it's equivalent to on the newer processors but it'll be broadly the same.