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From: munck@linus.UUCP (Robert Munck)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Intel-Bashing
Message-ID: <53175@linus.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 89 16:20:17 GMT
Reply-To: munck@linus.UUCP (Robert Munck)
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean VA
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I'm getting pretty tired of the knee-jerk Intel 80X86 bashing in
this group.  I've been in the business of designing and writing
operating systems and real-time executives for quite some time, for
machines as varied as the IBM/360-67, Metra 400S, AN/UYK-20, 8080,
6809, and, currently, the 80386.  I'm having more fun writing this
(secure) OS for the 386 (in Pascal) than I've had on any of the others over 
all those years.  IMHO, the 386 is a wonderful machine for advanced and
experimental operating systems, and it's a real shame that the great  
majority of them are running monstrosities like UNIX or pitiful little
MS-DOS.

  I realize that some of those out there doing the bashing are assembly-
language programmers or writers of compiler code generators (or even both),
and may not have the same concerns about the CPU as I have.  However,
to paraphrase Heinlein, such people may have other nasty habits.
                            -- Bob Munck, munck@mitre.org