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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: 8-bit death
Message-ID: <2945.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 2 May 91 07:23:53 GMT
References: <1991Apr28.122439.13393@sugar.hackercorp.com> 
 <1991Apr28.162045.15585@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> <1991Apr30.112820.2451@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991May1.064455.3058@kessner.denver.co.us>
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Quoted from <1991May1.064455.3058@kessner.denver.co.us> by david@kessner.denver.co.us (David Kessner):

> the instruction set to it's registers indicate this.  MS-DOS fully
> utilizes all of the 8088 features, so I will classify it as a 16 bit OS.

    When one calls an MS-DOS "interrupt" (haw, reminds me of the C= 64),
    isn't the interrupt number a byte?

    That's a fundamental part of the OS that is only 8 bits.

> David Kessner - david@kessner.denver.co.us            | do {
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