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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: 386 PC vs Sun
Message-ID: <3715@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Oct-86 16:09:02 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  1 16:09:02 1986
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In article <1038@gilbbs.UUCP> mc68020@gilbbs.UUCP (Thomas J Keller) writes:
>In article <4104@brl-smoke.ARPA>, roberts@NBS-VMS.arpa (ROBERTS, JOHN) writes:
>>
>> are highly political.) The 80386 appears to have a number of distinct
>> advantages over the 80286 (linear address space, on-chip MMU, etc.)

The 80286 has an on-chip MMU also.

>
>   Yeah, maybe.  But it's still got the same braindamaged
>   instruction set and register complement as the 80286, 80186,
>   8086, 8080, 8008.

Note that they have gotten rid of all the restrictions on addressing
modes.  This goes a long way toward fixing the architecture.
-- 
What's the difference between a duck?

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