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- From: fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu (Faisal Nameer Jawdat)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: 486SLC chip.... what it it?
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- Date: 14 Dec 92 05:49:01 GMT
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- Organization: Sophomore, Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- sting@hfglobe.intel.com (Joe Bennett) writes:
- > NeXTStep is the first, to the best of my knowledge, 32 bit
- > anything for the general PC market since Cyrix and AMD started
- > their clone operations. I don't believe that Cyrix could have
- > possibly tested 32 bit stuff adequately, because there was very
- > little of it out there, and they were aiming for the entry level
- > market as well.
-
- OS/2 has a fairly wide user base, and has for a while. Nothing the
- size of DOS or Windows, but a reasonably following nonetheless.
- There are a fairly large number of unixes out there too.
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- -- faisal jawdat | "Certainly the game is rigged.
- email: fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu | Don't let that stop you;
- if mail handler barfs | if you don't bet, you can't win."
- fj05@andrew.cmu.edu | -Lazarus Long
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