On 22 Dec 2010 at 16:25, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Himself BillG even gave it some happy words (but
then, what products
of Intel didn't he give happy words to?).
He called the 80286 "brain dead"!
I remember Gordon Letwin (Microsoft OS/2) describing switching back
and forth between real and protected mode as being "like having to
turn off your engine to switch gears on the freeway".
I assume this was before the LOADALL instruction was discovered. I
wonder if Letwin's statement was designed to confuse the competition,
since you"d think that Microsoft would be on the Intel developer
distribution list...
--Chuck