Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/3/85; site ukma.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ukma!sambo From: sambo@ukma.UUCP (Father of micro-ln) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.arch Subject: Re: 386 Family Products Message-ID: <2353@ukma.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 17:23:23 EST Article-I.D.: ukma.2353 Posted: Fri Nov 1 17:23:23 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 05:18:52 EST References: <129@intelca.UUCP> <392@aum.UUCP> <225@l5.uucp> <533@scirtp.UUCP> Reply-To: sambo@ukma.UUCP (Father of micro-ln) Organization: Univ. of KY Mathematical Sciences Lines: 18 Xref: watmath net.micro:12554 net.arch:1989 In article <533@scirtp.UUCP> dfh@scirtp.UUCP (David F. Hinnant) writes: >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, with each program in its very own 1 MByte address space. Or how about running a program that requires 64 terabytes of memory? By the way, do I note a bit of unwillingness to listen to someone (or something) just be- cause he (it) is black? -- Samuel A. Figueroa, Dept. of CS, Univ. of KY, Lexington, KY 40506-0027 ARPA: ukma!sambo<@ANL-MCS>, or sambo%ukma.uucp@anl-mcs.arpa, or even anlams!ukma!sambo@ucbvax.arpa UUCP: {ucbvax,unmvax,boulder,oddjob}!anlams!ukma!sambo, or cbosgd!ukma!sambo "Micro-ln is great, if only people would start using it."