On 2/22/06, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc at conman.org> wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Chuck Guzis once
stated:
AFAIK, no OS
ever did this on the 286.
I belive OS/2 1x did this. IBM insisted on OS/2 supporting the 286 while
Microsoft wanted to skip it and support the 386 and above (this was one
disagreement between IBM and Microsoft that lead to the split between the
two).
That is my understanding, too, for what little it's worth...
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