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Subject: Re: 8-bit death (was Re: What the heck IS "Interactive TV"?)
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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1991 07:21:06 GMT
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Quoted from <02J7020m07rC01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> by kls30@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L Shephard):
> >MS-DOS is an 8-bit operating system. As is MacOS (a VW Beetle with a great
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> WRONG.  If MS-DOS was an 8-bit OS you would not have 16-bit anything
> built in.  In fact you do.  CPM was 8-bit  MS-DOS is 16-bits.  The

    I suspect the original poster was refering to MS-DOS being
    embarassingly small and puny.

    The idea is probably that if the thing is barely a step above the
    C= 64's disk drive wedge thing, then it deserves to be labelled
    accordingly. I'm sure there must be real microcomputer 16-bit OSs that
    so far outpower MS-DOS that it would be an insult to them to be
    considered in the same general class just because of the bit-width
    they happen to care most about.

> /*   Kent L. Shephard  : email - kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com   */

    Hoping I've got the right newsgroup...
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