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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Pure speculation re:80586
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Date: 14 Sep 90 15:11:10 GMT
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Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
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Well now that people are purely speculating on the 80586, which
will have real mode, virtual 8086 mode, 80286 protected mode, 80386
protected mode, virtual 80386 mode, and protected 80586 mode, how
about adding a 68000 mode to appeal to those folks that think you can
only write programs for a Motorola processor.

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
Standard Disclaimers Apply :-)