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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
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Subject: 386/68020 blather
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Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 03:50:10 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  4 03:50:10 1985
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> >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.