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From: wbeebe@bilver.UUCP (bill beebe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: 80486
Keywords: 486 request for info
Message-ID: <337@bilver.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 88 03:00:40 GMT
References: <17566@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> <5800@cadnetix.COM> <316@imuse.uucp>
Reply-To: wbeebe@bilver.UUCP (bill beebe)
Distribution: comp
Organization: W. J. Vermillion, Winter Park, FL
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In article <316@imuse.uucp> ed@imuse.uucp (Ed Braaten) writes:
>
>EEeeek!!!!  Please spare us.  The idea of DOS running at X-Mips... 
>Please don't wish a future like that on the 80486! (I'm referring to 
>all the under-worked 80386 CPU's out there in PC-boxes doing single-
>tasking brain-damaged DOS or executing sludge-ware like OS/2...)
>
>Thanks for rating comp.sys.intel as the 'best group'! ;-)

 I'd be careful what I called "brain-damaged" and "sludge-ware". Not only
is Intel selling MessDOS 4.0 and OS/2 v1.1 with PM, but they have for some
time now (in America, anyway) been selling training courses.

 As for the 80486, it is a fixed version of the 80386, just like the 80386
was a fixed version of the 80286... :^).