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From: Rugxulo <rugxulo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: DOS, was Re: Ada Tutor Web Site Shutting Down
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 17:26:18 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2011-05-14T17:26:18-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c4b8e4d0-886f-4f6b-b3d0-40309e749221@t19g2000yql.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b31ad9d8-659d-40b8-8776-61b7334beb9d@s11g2000yqj.googlegroups.com

Hi, just noticed something,

On May 13, 3:12 pm, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Part of the problem is high cost of software, so people want all their
> old (expensive) stuff to still work. So Bill Gates calls the 286
> "braindead" for not effectively supporting switching to real mode
> (e.g. for OS/2 1.x) for DOS stuff. The 386 fixed this with V86 mode,
> which is one of the reasons Win 3.0 was a big success (not to mention DPMI).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80286

"This limitation led to Bill Gates famously referring to the 80286 as
a "brain dead chip",[5] since it was clear that the new Microsoft
Windows environment would not be able to run multiple MS-DOS
applications with the 286."

5. ^ Microprocessors: A Programmer's View, Robert B. K. Dewar and
Matthew Smosna, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1990, ISBN 0-07-016638-2

Wait a minute, I don't even know Ada (yet), but is this the same
Robert Dewar known from it?? Funny stuff. (A quick search shows that
he dropped off comp.lang.ada about 9 years ago.)   :-)



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-15  0:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-06 23:04 Ada Tutor Web Site Shutting Down John Herro
2011-04-08 10:57 ` Thomas Løcke
2011-04-22 16:10   ` Brad Cantrell
2011-04-27 16:02     ` John Herro
2011-04-29  6:00       ` qunying
2011-05-05 12:29         ` John Herro
2011-05-05 17:52           ` Rugxulo
2011-05-05 21:12             ` Randy Brukardt
2011-05-07  8:36               ` Fritz Wuehler
2011-05-10 21:36               ` Rugxulo
2011-05-12  0:45                 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-05-12 13:28                   ` Rugxulo
2011-05-12 14:44                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-05-12 17:40                       ` Rugxulo
2011-05-12 18:24                         ` Adam Beneschan
2011-05-12 22:17                           ` DOS, was " Georg Bauhaus
2011-05-12 22:40                             ` Adam Beneschan
2011-05-13  5:14                               ` tmoran
2011-05-13  7:25                               ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-05-13 20:32                                 ` Rugxulo
2011-05-13 22:25                                   ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-05-17 13:09                                   ` Paul Colin Gloster
2011-05-13 20:12                             ` Rugxulo
2011-05-14  0:26                               ` Randy Brukardt
2011-05-14 13:52                               ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-05-14 21:29                                 ` Rugxulo
2011-05-15  0:14                                   ` Rugxulo
2011-05-15  0:26                               ` Rugxulo [this message]
2011-05-15  7:27                                 ` Niklas Holsti
2011-05-17 13:17                               ` Paul Colin Gloster
2011-05-14  0:17                             ` Randy Brukardt
2011-05-14 14:02                               ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-05-16 23:58                                 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-05-14  1:21                             ` Adam Beneschan
2011-05-14  0:07                           ` Randy Brukardt
2011-05-14 13:08                           ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-05-12 18:44                         ` DOS, was " tmoran
2011-05-14 14:17                           ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-05-13 16:19                         ` Paul Colin Gloster
2011-05-13 17:22                           ` Frank J. Lhota
2011-05-13 18:10                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-05-14  0:03                     ` Randy Brukardt
2011-05-14 14:21                       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-05-16 23:49                         ` Randy Brukardt
2011-05-14 21:22                       ` Rugxulo
2011-05-19 14:56                         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-05-14 12:44                     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-05-14 21:20                       ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-05-14 12:32                 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-05-14 21:19                   ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-05-19 15:00                     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-05-12 19:19           ` Simon Wright
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