Fluke 9010A pod query

Well, according to the wikipedia page:

"The NEC V30 (μPD70116) was a version of the NEC V20 that was pin compatible with the 16-bit data bus Intel 8086 processor."

..that would lead me to believe that it would be safe to try it at least, from a pinout perspective. They do mention that their NEC V20 chip (which is pin compatible with an 8088) is approximately 30% faster than a typical 8088. So if the V30 is faster than an 8086 you might run into some performance problems.
 
Thanks. Yeah, I saw the Wiki page, which is partly why I asked here. I'm guessing somebody must know for sure. :)
 
just stuff a v30 in the pod :p, but im sure he ising running the board, just testing it.
 
As long as it's pin compatible the worst that can happen is the board runs slow or wierd if you actually run UUT. Otherwise all the ram/rom/bus tests should be fine.
 
Thread Necro, but I was working on an Irem R-Type which uses the Nec V30. I was also curious what would happen with the V30 being installed in the Fluke 8086 pod. I opened up my known working pod, installed the V30. Did Pod self test which passed.
But game would not start when I did Run UUT.
So there is the answer (for at least the Irem M-72 R-Type Hardware).
 
Not 100% sure why it did not work, but this came to mind.
On the premise that the pod is only using Intel 8086 codes and the V30 is code and pin compatible it should work.
Problem maybe to do with max clock speed of the Pod compared to UUT clock (since the pod runs from the UUT clock). This would work in selftest as it is only running using the selftest clock which is within the pod specs.
I do not have an 8086 pod so cannot do any tests myself to verify.
 
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