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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
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Posted: Fri Nov  1 17:23:23 1985
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Organization: Univ. of KY Mathematical Sciences
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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
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