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- From: yjc@po.cwru.edu (Jerome 'TofuSoft' Chan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: 486 vs. Mac Benchmarks
- Followup-To: comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 06:27:28 GMT
- Organization: The Tofu Society of Singapore
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- References: <1992Dec17.224200.22219@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <BzoBtM.6Jv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Dec23.144535.11341@crd.ge.com> <C0Co0s.1C6@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
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- In article <C0Co0s.1C6@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
- ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) wrote:
- >
- > In article <1992Dec23.144535.11341@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
- >
- > > The truth is that Mac applications are 32 bit, and DOS applications
- > >are 16 bit. A comparison of UNIX 32 bit applications would be more
- > >correct, if they were just comparing the processors.
- >
- > Well, if this is so, how do the apps run on Mac Pluses? And why is
- > 32 bit adressing an option under System 7?
-
- They run under 24 bits or you can plug in mode32 and run them under 32
- bits.
- They have 32 bit as an option to maintain backward compatibility with
- Applications which are not 32 bit clean. I seldom come across a 32 bit
- unclean application though. Even the old 1985(?) Missile Command Game I
- found run under 32 bits.
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