Instructions by mnemonic mnemonic: opcode: processor: remark & remedy: AAA i80286 & i80386 & i80486 CMPS i80286 CMPXCHG i80486 FINIT FSTSW FSTCW INS i80286 & i80386 & i80486 INVD i80486 MOV to SS n/a early 8088 Some early 8088 would not properly disable interrupts after a move to the SS register. Workaround would be to explicitly clear the interrupts, update SS and SP and then re-enable the interrupts. Typically this would occur in a situation where one would relocate a stack in memory, more than 64Kb from the original one, updating both SS and SP like in: MOV SS,AX ; would disable interrupts automatically during this and next instruction. MOV SP,DX ; interrupts disabled ... ; interrupts enabled. multiple prefixes with REPx 8088 & 8086 They would not properly restart at the first prefix byte after an interrupt. when more than one prefix is used. e.g. LOCK REP MOVSW CS:[bx]. A workaround is to test after the instruction for CX==0, here: LOCK REP MOVSW CS:[BX] OR CX,CX JNZ here because of the CS override, the REP and LOCK prefixes would not be recognised to be part of the instruction and the REP MOVSW would be aborted. This also seems to be the case for a REP MOVSW CS:[BX] Note that this also implies that REPZ, REPNZ are affected in SCASW for instance. .