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- From: matthias@nsr.hp.com (Matthias Kamm)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: The Death of x86 Arch. ?
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 18:31:13 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett Packard Santa Clara Site
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- Colonel Panic (aland@informix.com) wrote:
- :
- : 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?
- :
- : --
- You must not read the paper. How could microsoft position NT as the
- next generation, compatible OS (after DOS/Windows) if x86 executables
- wouldn't run on it? The whole point of NT is that microsoft is moving
- away from Intel dependance, and making the OS hardware platform
- independant.
-
- By the way, I also asked Santa for a playoff spot for the Wash. Redskins
- and got it!
-
- Matthias
-