home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!news.claremont.edu!bridge2!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!convex!news.utdallas.edu!goyal
- From: goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: Can software be 486-specific?
- Message-ID: <BxM1Hr.779@utdallas.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 15:53:50 GMT
- References: <BxL9qH.M45@utdallas.edu> <1992Nov12.065155.21316@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: usenet@utdallas.edu
- Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
- Lines: 10
- Nntp-Posting-Host: csclass.utdallas.edu
-
- >IMHO, if there are in fact processor-specific advantages to requiring
- >a 486, doing so makes sense. The PC world has long been crippled by
- >its need for backward compatibility with early machines. This seems
- >a good point to start with a clean slate (or as clean a slate as
- >possible).
- >
- I figure that a 386 is the best cut-off point. (a la OS/2 2.0)
-
- A 486 program can't offer that much speed advantage over a 386 program,
- and their are a ton of 386's out their.
-