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From: feustel@netcom.UUCP (David Feustel)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: The CPU with 3 brains
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Date: 9 Nov 90 23:10:34 GMT
References: <42737@mips.mips.COM> <1990Nov4.014901.23819@zoo.toronto.edu> <PCG.90Nov5195229@odin.cs.aber.ac.uk> <2841@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1990Nov8.063034.6933@alzabo.uucp>
Organization: DAFCO - An OS/2 Oasis
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I got hooked on the 8086 family in part because character string
operations are done so much better there than in any other machine
I've looked at and also because the 8086 followed the Multics hardware
model documented by Organik in his book on Multics.
-- 
David Feustel, 1930 Curdes Ave, Fort Wayne, IN 46805, (219) 482-9631