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- From: tchannon@black.demon.co.uk (Tim Channon)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!black.demon.co.uk!tchannon
- Subject: Oberon Question
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- References: <1992Jul30.214457.19642@massey.ac.nz>
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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 01:21:57 +0000
- Message-ID: <712558687snx@black.demon.co.uk>
- Sender: usenet@gate.demon.co.uk
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- >I would enthusiastically concur with that. And what about my AT - it
- >can use protected mode and could address up to 20Mb if I had it. Why
- >does everyone only support 386's these days?
- >
- I wholly agree but I think it is because the '286 can only address that
- memory as segmented, whereas the 386+ can make it flat (and slow).
-
- Part of the job of a HLL compiler writer is in my opinion to do the hard bits
- which on the Intel means making the 64k segmentation go away. They in fact
- pass the buck.
-
- Anything I write for public consumption will always run on an 8088. Move on
- to really major software works and I think you will find that there comes a
- time when there is little choice but the draw a line and say big machines
- only. This is ok if the software is expensive.
-
- Were MicroSoft wrong in making Windows 3, 286 or greater? I guess that W 4
- will be 486 or greater 8-)
-
- TC.
- E-mail: tchannon@black.demon.co.uk or tchannon@cix.compulink.co.uk
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