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.) :-)
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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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