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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
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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.