Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!pyrnj!rutgers!iuvax!beckman From: beckman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Peter Beckman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: BS/2 running 32-bit mode on 386 Message-ID: <13232@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Date: 28 Sep 88 13:54:25 GMT References: <147@imspw6.UUCP> <45900156@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <8605@bigtex.uucp> Reply-To: beckman@iuvax.UUCP (Peter Beckman) Organization: Indiana University CSCI, Bloomington Lines: 9 In article <8605@bigtex.uucp> james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen) writes: >In article <45900156@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>, mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu wrote: >> [...] But in the IBMPC world, nobody cares a hoot about portability. > >This is somewhat out of context, but perhaps should go up for being the >Quote-of-the-Month! I did game programming on the PC for several years >and now I do BIOS programming, and the >only< major issue is compatibility. Compatibility and Portability are two different notions. Maybe you read his sentence incorrectly.