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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: ANOTHER 32-BIT MACHINE???
Message-ID: <5337@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25-Mar-85 12:00:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 25 12:00:00 1985
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> 	... all I can say about the 386 is that it is a full 32 bit 
> microprocessor, (with four gigabyte segments) which is totally binary 
> compatible with the iAPX86 family.

That statement is self-contradictory.  Binary compatibility with the
8086 is fundamentally incompatible with a full 32-bit architecture.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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