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- From: timbol@netcom.com (Mike Timbol)
- Subject: Re: The Death of x86 Arch. ?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.032305.21871@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1992Dec17.195557.1989@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1gqsv5INNiel@hpscit.sc.hp.com> <1992Dec29.234248.28259@informix.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 03:23:05 GMT
- Lines: 19
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- In article <1992Dec29.234248.28259@informix.com> aland@informix.com (Colonel Panic) writes:
- >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?
-
- Actually, this will work, provided the application doesn't directly access
- the hardware (as many games do). But for things like WordPerfect and
- Lotus 1-2-3, there shouldn't be any problem.
-
- >Alan Denney aland@informix.com {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland
-
- - Mike
-