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- From: THE KSG <kgatlin@cs.ucsd.edu>
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- Subject: Re: Why are 32 bit better than 16 bit pgms?
- Date: 1 Feb 1996 19:35:31 GMT
- Organization: InnovaSoft (The Bomb Crew)
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- >yeah, really cool, like i'm running at the streets that i can code 32-bits
- >code (= maybe bigger motivation is that then you can access to memory above
- >1MB easily and do faster code..
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- I hear this said a lot but I don't think I understand it. When people refer
- to 32bit applications isn't that in reference to the datapath, not address?
- Is what you say about the 1MB thing above in reference to MS-DOS or specific to
- the Intel x86 architecture or is it a more general statement about 16bit and
- 32 bit programs on all OSs over all architectures (at least those that are
- commonly used).
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- Thanks for the help,
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- KSG
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