Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!rutgers!njin!uupsi!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: 8-bit death (was Re: What the heck IS "Interactive TV"?) Message-ID: <1991Apr21.152513.23054@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 21 Apr 91 15:25:13 GMT References: <16928@chopin.udel.edu> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 17 In article kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L. Shephard) writes: > That is 16 bits vs 32 bits and 8 bits vs 16 bits. Now tell me that > a 386sx is a 16 bit cpu. It's not the CPU, it's the software. Anything you run MS-DOS on is basically a CP/M box. A VW Beetle with a V-8. MS-DOS is an 8-bit operating system. As is MacOS (a VW Beetle with a great sound system). Xenix-286 and other swapping UNIX variants are 16-bit operating systems. As is AmigaOS. VMUNIX is a 32-bit operating system. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .