Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!chinet!bigtex!james
From: james@bigtex.uucp (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BS/2 running 32-bit mode on 386
Message-ID: <8605@bigtex.uucp>
Date: 28 Sep 88 04:55:35 GMT
References: <147@imspw6.UUCP> <45900156@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: F.B.N. Software, Austin TX
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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.

> To me the ability to do actual IO in user mode is absolutely vital.

Graphics on the screen perhaps, but I don't see user access to such
things as floppy/hard drives or the CPU cache controller as being a
good thing.  We *will* be abandoning the WD1010 interface and all of
the other hardware things at some point and it would be nice if the
software still worked.
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