Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.arch Subject: 386/68020 blather Message-ID: <200@opus.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 03:50:10 EST Article-I.D.: opus.200 Posted: Mon Nov 4 03:50:10 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 07:23:52 EST References: <533@scirtp.UUCP> <2353@ukma.UUCP> Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 15 Xref: linus net.micro:11375 net.arch:1827 > >I fail to see why anyone would 'sweat' over the 386 unless they knew they > >HAD to use it on their next project. What can it do that the 68020 can't do > >better? > > Run several MS-DOS programs simultaneously with full 8086 compatibility,... So a parochial statement (roughly, 68020 is better) gets a non-response (68K processor doesn't run 86 code). OK, lessee, I can tout the uVAX (for example) and get two people to flame because it can't run either 68K or 86 code. Then someone pops up with a 32000 and three of us flame 'cause it won't run VAX or 68K or 86 code. Come on, this ain't even a decent reason to flame, let alone to post to net.arch... -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.