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From: 37KGLLQ@CMUVM.BITNET (Tony Papadimitriou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Pure speculation re:80586
Message-ID: <90255.19293437KGLLQ@CMUVM.BITNET>
Date: 12 Sep 90 23:29:34 GMT
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>The 80386 can run in the virtual 8086 mode.
>
>Is it outrageous to assume that Intel may build the 80586
>to run in the virtual 80386 mode?
>
>If so, each session could address 16 Meg of RAM and with
>a fast enough cpu clock, one computer  could be a workstation
>and a file server, IE. Novell, all at the same time.
>
>Any comments?

The sad thing is that each 80386 virtual mode would also have to support
the virtual 8086 mode and that means DOS will never leave us alone :-)