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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: 8-bit death
Message-ID: <3133.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 4 May 91 14:15:18 GMT
References: <160.tnews@ping.actrix.gen.nz>
Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG.
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Quoted from <160.tnews@ping.actrix.gen.nz> by ping@ping.actrix.gen.nz (Peter Ingham):
> Quoted from <...unknown> by jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers):

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

> This is a Hardware design restraint rather than a feature (or lack of it) 
> in any particular 808x OS.

    The OS is supposed to be tied to the hardware... the smaller the
    CPU, the more likely this is to be. This is exactly why so many
    people think of MS-DOS as an 8-bit (or less) OS.

>     Peter S. Ingham        ping@ping.actrix.gen.nz
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