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From: Rugxulo <rugxulo@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: DOS, was Re: Ada Tutor Web Site Shutting Down
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 17:26:18 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi, just noticed something,

On May 13, 3:12=A0pm, 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 DPM=
I).

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.)   :-)