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From: snoopy@doghouse.gwd.tek.com (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Features of various Intel chips (was: Re: The GNU Manifesto)
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Date: 9 Feb 88 21:04:44 GMT
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In article <12@obie.UUCP> wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes:
>In article <9670@tekecs.TEK.COM>, snoopy@doghouse.gwd.tek.com (Snoopy) writes:

>> (a) The IBM-PC doesn't have memory management. (b) The hardware can be
>> *destroyed* by software.  Totally unacceptable.

>  Plus, the '286 DOES have memory management.
>  And now, with
> '386 boxes in the < $2,000 range,

Ahem.  I wrote the "IBM-PC".  The IBM-PC has an 8088, not a 80286.
Computer types are supposed to pay attention to these little details. :-)

Snoopy
tektronix!doghouse.gwd!snoopy
snoopy@doghouse.gwd.tek.com

"And it's a middle-endian machine, with trinary logic."
"They would do that."

("they" refers to the M-company, not the I-company)