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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple's committment to the // line
Message-ID: <11322@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 17 Oct 89 05:45:24 GMT
References: <8910161138.AA10844@trout.nosc.mil>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <8910161138.AA10844@trout.nosc.mil> sysop@pro-generic.cts.com (Matthew Montano) writes:
>386 machine is basically a superfast CP/M style machine running mostly
>brain-dead operating systems (MS-DOS), OS/2 is something to behold but it is
>meerly taking advantage of the bus speed and memory capacity of these souped
>up CP/M machines. ... There have been next to none advancements in the Intel
>world for years, they meerly stuff faster x86's in them, more memory and
>sometimes double the bus width.

You shouldn't talk about things you don't know about.  The 386
supports 8086 (NOT 8080 or CP/M) the way the 65816 supports 6502,
but is MUCH, MUCH better in its native mode.  In fact the first
available 386 systems were all UNIX boxes.  Damn near any UNIX
makes GS/OS look like the toy operating system that it is.
Additional graphics support is pretty much orthogonal to OS and
CPU considerations, and there are many bitmap-supporting UNIX
implementations (even Apple offers one).  Check out the Sun 386i.