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- From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
- Subject: Re: Don't let the Amiga Die (Part II)!!!
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 06:12:51 GMT
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- jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
- >Philip McDunnough (philip@utstat.toronto.edu) wrote:
- >:
- >: The biggest hype around surrounds all these 486's and their fast
- >: hard drives, which for the most part are still running 8 bit software and
- >: can't figure out which interrupts are taken.
- >:
- >
- >Interesting statement, Philip. The original PC had an 8088 CPU. How does
- >one write 8-bit software for a 16-bit (internal) CPU?
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- Probably the same way that some of the 386s where I work have 8-bit
- controller cards in them. Floppy to floppy copying is very slow, on a
- Zenith 386 16 MHz, running msdos 5.0. The 'Standard' 386 25 MHz do copy
- faster, floppy to floppy in the other lab. { Same files, same size floppies}
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