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Re: Perl rules!
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Thu, 22 Jul 1999 21:29:51 GMT
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On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 18:27:57 GMT, "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com>
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> It just sucks that IBM chose the Intel 80x86 archtecture over, say, the
> Motorola 68xxx architecture. The 68xxx architecture was always 32-bit and
> would have saved the PC industry years of segmentation grief. And although
> the 32-bit 80386 was released in 1985, it took nearly 10 years to stomp out
> all of the old 8086 legacy garbage -- and it's not even totally gone today.
You realise what the cost differential you're talking about is, don't
you? If IBM had used 68k rather than x86, there's a much better chance
today the lucky few would have macs, rather than everybody and his dog
having a PC.
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> Remember back in 1989-1990 when you could get a 2MB or 4MB PC box but only
> (practically speaking) use the upper memory for a RAM disk or a few special
> high-end applications? That's so terribly sad. :-(
Yeah. I remember the same thing in 93, actually.
> I think MS-DOS got that from CP/M, but I'm not sure. I do remember for sure
> that some of my old CP/M programs in the late 70's all ended with .BAS and
> had short names, but I'm not sure if CP/M originated 8.3 or whether it
> actually was 8.3 and not something else close to that.
CP/M 1.2, which my mother's old Osborne OS/1 luggable uses, had 8.3
filenames.
.BAS would be BASIC programs, BTW.
> But anyway, had Linux been used instead of DOS (and this is not to suggest
> that James made a mistake), there certainly wouldn't be the 8.3 limit.
When was Ldraw started again? 2 years ago, nobody had even heard of
linux. Okay, so I had a working installation 4 years ago, but back
then, I didn't know what the hell to do with it ;)
> In that regard, thank god for MS-Windows, since it helped do away with most
> of the mess created by itself and Intel earlier.
Umm... Win9x still runs on DOS, you know.
Jasper
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| [removed lugnet.off-topic.debate from crosspost list] (...) I'd say, back in 1983, the lack of virtual memory and the 640KB limit was no big deal (in the PC industry). By 1989, it was becoming unfortunate. By 1991, it was getting really bad. And by (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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