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- From: aland@informix.com (Colonel Panic)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: The Death of x86 Arch. ?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.234248.28259@informix.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 23:42:48 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.195557.1989@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1gqsv5INNiel@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
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- Organization: Helen Keller Bondurant's Performance Driving School for the Blind
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- In article <1gqsv5INNiel@hpscit.sc.hp.com> matthias@nsr.hp.com (Matthias Kamm) writes:
- >Imagine this:
- >You're "upgrading" operating systems and currently use MSDOS 5.0
- >and want to keep the investment you've made in PC s/w safe. Will you
- >run your software on an x86 platform, or buy a "PC" running windows
- >NT with an Alpha processor, say, with 10x the computing power! I'd
- >BAG the antiquated x86 family and go with RISC.
-
- Eh? You're expecting to run your x86 DOS 5.0 executables on an Alpha
- machine running NT? What else did you ask Santa for this year?
-
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