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From: phil@cs.mcgill.ca (Philip LOCONG)
Subject: Re: Question about different 386's ...
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Date: Fri, 5 Apr 91 23:36:53 GMT


>[debate about usefullness of 386DX vs 386SX with one (con)argument
> being that most MSDOS programs are 16bit]
>Also, most MSDOS programs are not 16-bit.  They are 8-bit.  How
>else do you think I've been running them on my XT??????

Doesn't an XT have a 8086 ?
(which is 16-bit in the same way 386SX is 32-bit)

:-)

(However, I do agree that most or "very very many" programs are 8-bit)