12 Dec
2005
12 Dec
'05
10:30 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
One wonders what the OS landscape would have looked
like had MS simply
bundled a 32-bit flat-mode DPMI server with MS-DOS when the 386 came out.
Would anyone really have preferred developing for the segmented 16-bit
model?
Of course not. But what I really wonder is if IBM had chosen the 68000 instead
of the 8086. 32-bit right from the start, and more usuable CPU registers than
just "Larry, Moe, and Curly" as a grizzled friend once put it :-)
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