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Re: Whether something is RISC or not (Re: PDP-8 theology, not Concertina II Progress)

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First post2024-10-01 19:02 +0000
Last post2024-10-03 00:30 +0000
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  Re: Whether something is RISC or not (Re: PDP-8 theology, not Concertina II Progress) mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2024-10-01 19:02 +0000
    Re: Whether something is RISC or not (Re: PDP-8 theology, not Concertina II Progress) Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2024-10-01 20:00 +0000
      Re: Whether something is RISC or not (Re: PDP-8 theology, not Concertina II Progress) mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2024-10-01 21:04 +0000
        Re: Whether something is RISC or not (Re: PDP-8 theology, not Concertina II Progress) Brett <ggtgp@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-01 23:38 +0000
          Re: Whether something is RISC or not (Re: PDP-8 theology, not Concertina II Progress) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-03 00:31 +0000
            Re: Whether something is RISC or not (Re: PDP-8 theology, not Concertina II Progress) Brett <ggtgp@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-03 01:26 +0000
            Re: Whether something is RISC or not (Re: PDP-8 theology, not Concertina II Progress) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2024-10-03 06:28 +0000
            Re: Whether something is RISC or not (Re: PDP-8 theology, not Concertina II Progress) David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-03 09:21 +0200
              Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2024-10-03 09:39 +0000
                Re: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not) David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-03 14:34 +0200
                Re: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-03 22:17 +0000
                  Re: Byte ordering Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2024-10-03 15:33 -1000
                  Re: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not) David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-04 11:23 +0200
                    Re: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2024-10-04 17:30 +0000
                      Re: Byte ordering BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2024-10-04 14:05 -0500
                        Re: Byte ordering mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2024-10-04 23:06 +0000
                          Re: Byte ordering BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2024-10-04 19:44 -0500
                            Re: Byte ordering Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-05 06:35 +0000
                          Re: Byte ordering Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-05 06:34 +0000
                      Re: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-05 06:31 +0000
                        Re: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not) Brett <ggtgp@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-05 17:52 +0000
                          Re: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2024-10-05 18:11 +0000
                            Re: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not) Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-05 22:53 +0300
                              Re: Byte ordering Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2024-10-06 22:07 +0200
                              Re: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not) Brett <ggtgp@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-06 21:53 +0000
                                Re: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-07 06:29 +0000
                                  Re: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not) Brett <ggtgp@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-07 16:16 +0000
                                    Re: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not) Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-07 19:57 +0300
                                      Re: Byte ordering Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-10-07 16:00 -0400
                                        Re: Byte ordering Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-08 00:11 +0300
                                      Re: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-07 21:46 +0000
                                        Re: Byte ordering Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2024-10-08 10:40 +0200
                      Re: Byte ordering David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-06 11:58 +0200
                        Re: Byte ordering anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2024-10-06 13:04 +0000
                          Re: Byte ordering jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) - 2024-10-06 16:34 +0100
                            Re: Byte ordering Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-07 06:32 +0000
                              Re: Byte ordering jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) - 2024-10-08 22:28 +0100
                                Re: Byte ordering EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> - 2024-10-09 13:37 -0400
                                  VMS/NT memory management (was: Byte ordering) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-10-09 16:01 -0400
                                    Re: VMS/NT memory management (was: Byte ordering) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-10-09 23:16 +0000
                                      Re: VMS/NT memory management EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> - 2024-10-11 15:21 -0400
                                        Re: VMS/NT memory management scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-10-12 15:20 +0000
                                  Re: Byte ordering Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-14 23:55 +0000
                                    Re: Byte ordering Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-15 11:16 +0300
                                      Re: Byte ordering jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) - 2024-10-15 18:40 +0100
                                      Re: Byte ordering Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-18 05:56 +0000
                                    Re: Byte ordering jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) - 2024-10-15 18:40 +0100
                                      Re: Byte ordering scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-10-15 18:57 +0000
                                      Re: Byte ordering George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2024-10-15 19:51 -0400
                                        Re: Byte ordering Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2024-10-16 07:36 +0200
                                          Re: Byte ordering David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-16 09:17 +0200
                                            Re: Byte ordering George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2024-10-16 21:19 -0400
                                              Re: Byte ordering David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-17 14:39 +0200
                                            Re: clouds, not Byte ordering John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2024-10-17 02:35 +0000
                                              Re: clouds, not Byte ordering David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-17 14:41 +0200
                                      Re: Byte ordering Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-18 05:57 +0000
                                    Re: Byte ordering "Paul A. Clayton" <paaronclayton@gmail.com> - 2024-10-16 11:34 -0400
                                      Re: Microkernels & Capabilities (was Re: Byte ordering) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-18 05:54 +0000
                                Re: Byte ordering Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-14 23:51 +0000
                                  Re: Byte ordering mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2024-10-15 00:17 +0000
                            80286 protected mode anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2024-10-07 07:33 +0000
                              Re: 80286 protected mode Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> - 2024-10-07 12:42 +0000
                                Re: 80286 protected mode Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2024-10-07 15:17 +0200
                                  Re: 80286 protected mode Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-07 17:45 +0300
                                  Re: 80286 protected mode Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-07 21:55 +0000
                                    Re: 80286 protected mode Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2024-10-08 10:44 +0200
                              Re: 80286 protected mode Brett <ggtgp@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-07 16:32 +0000
                                Re: 80286 protected mode Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-07 20:03 +0300
                                  Re: 80286 protected mode Brett <ggtgp@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-07 17:40 +0000
                              Re: 80286 protected mode Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-07 21:52 +0000
                              Re: 80286 protected mode mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2024-10-07 23:13 +0000
                                Re: 80286 protected mode Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-08 06:16 +0000
                                  Re: 80286 protected mode mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2024-10-08 20:53 +0000
                                    Re: 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-09 08:48 +0200
                                    Re: 80286 protected mode Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-14 23:46 +0000
                                Re: 80286 protected mode anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2024-10-08 07:28 +0000
                                  Re: 80286 protected mode Robert Finch <robfi680@gmail.com> - 2024-10-08 07:28 -0400
                                  Re: 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-09 10:24 +0200
                                    Re: 80286 protected mode mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2024-10-09 16:28 +0000
                                      Re: 80286 protected mode scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-10-09 16:42 +0000
                                      Re: 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-09 22:20 +0200
                                        Re: 80286 protected mode Stephen Fuld <sfuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> - 2024-10-09 14:52 -0700
                                          Re: 80286 protected mode mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2024-10-10 00:33 +0000
                                            Re: 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-10 08:30 +0200
                                          Re: 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-10 08:24 +0200
                                          Re: 80286 protected mode Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-10-11 08:15 -0700
                                            Re: 80286 protected mode Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-10-15 17:26 -0400
                                              Re: 80286 protected mode mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2024-10-15 21:55 +0000
                                                Re: 80286 protected mode scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-10-15 22:05 +0000
                                                  Re: 80286 protected mode mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2024-10-16 00:24 +0000
                                                    Re: C and turtles, 80286 protected mode John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2024-10-16 01:08 +0000
                                                      Re: C and turtles, 80286 protected mode mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2024-10-16 02:48 +0000
                                                        Re: C and turtles, 80286 protected mode John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2024-10-16 03:09 +0000
                                                          Re: C and turtles, 80286 protected mode Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2024-10-17 19:49 +0000
                                                            Re: C and turtles, 80286 protected mode scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-10-17 21:03 +0000
                                                            Re: C and turtles, 80286 protected mode Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-20 07:08 +0000
                                                              Re: C and turtles, 80286 protected mode George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2024-10-20 15:49 -0400
                                                                Re: C and turtles, 80286 protected mode Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-10-21 18:19 -0700
                                                                  Re: C and turtles, 80286 protected mode George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2024-10-22 17:28 -0400
                                                      Re: C and turtles, 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-16 10:04 +0200
                                                      Re: C and turtles, 80286 protected mode "Paul A. Clayton" <paaronclayton@gmail.com> - 2024-10-16 15:07 -0400
                                                        Re: C and turtles, 80286 protected mode scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-10-16 19:41 +0000
                                                          Re: C and turtles, 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-17 16:13 +0200
                                                        Re: C and turtles, 80286 protected mode Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-20 07:07 +0000
                                                          Re: C and turtles, 80286 protected mode "Paul A. Clayton" <paaronclayton@gmail.com> - 2024-10-20 12:14 -0400
                                                    Re: 80286 protected mode scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-10-16 15:38 +0000
                                                      Re: 80286 protected mode George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2024-10-16 23:06 -0400
                                                        Re: 80286 protected mode Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-10-17 03:16 -0700
                                                        Re: 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-17 16:16 +0200
                                                    Re: 80286 protected mode Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2024-10-16 20:00 +0000
                                                      Re: 80286 protected mode mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2024-10-16 22:18 +0000
                                                        Re: 80286 protected mode Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-10-17 01:18 -0700
                                                      Re: 80286 protected mode Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-10-17 00:40 -0700
                                                        Re: fine points of dynamic memory allocation, not 80286 protected mode John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2024-10-17 18:31 +0000
                                                          Re: fine points of dynamic memory allocation, not 80286 protected mode scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-10-17 19:01 +0000
                                                            Re: fine points of dynamic memory allocation, not 80286 protected mode John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2024-10-17 19:32 +0000
                                                              Re: fine points of dynamic memory allocation, not 80286 protected mode scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-10-17 21:01 +0000
                                                          Re: fine points of dynamic memory allocation, not 80286 protected mode Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-10-18 07:12 -0700
                                                    Re: 80286 protected mode Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-10-17 02:48 -0700
                                                Re: 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-16 09:38 +0200
                                                  Re: 80286 protected mode George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2024-10-16 23:32 -0400
                                                    Re: 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-17 16:25 +0200
                                                Re: 80286 protected mode Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-10-17 03:17 -0700
                                              Re: 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-16 09:21 +0200
                                                Re: 80286 protected mode Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-10-16 11:18 -0400
                                                  Re: 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-16 19:57 +0200
                                                    Re: 80286 protected mode Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-10-21 14:04 -0400
                                                Re: 80286 protected mode Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2024-10-18 17:38 +0100
                                                  Re: 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-18 21:45 +0200
                                                    Re: 80286 protected mode Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2024-10-20 21:51 +0100
                                                      Re: 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-21 08:58 +0200
                                                        Re: 80286 protected mode Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2024-10-21 09:21 +0200
                                                          Re: 80286 protected mode Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-10-21 18:32 -0700
                                                            Retirement hobby (was Re: 80286 protected mode) Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2024-10-22 08:27 +0200
                                                              Re: Retirement hobby (was Re: 80286 protected mode) Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-10-23 07:25 -0700
                                                                Re: Retirement hobby (was Re: 80286 protected mode) mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2024-10-23 18:11 +0000
                                                                  Re: Retirement hobby (was Re: 80286 protected mode) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-10-23 18:27 +0000
                                                                    Re: Retirement hobby (was Re: 80286 protected mode) Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2024-10-23 21:12 +0200
                                                                      Re: Retirement hobby (was Re: 80286 protected mode) Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2024-10-27 20:45 +0000
                                                                  Re: Retirement hobby (was Re: 80286 protected mode) Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2024-10-23 21:11 +0200
                                                                    Re: Retirement hobby (was Re: 80286 protected mode) mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2024-10-23 21:01 +0000
                                                                      Re: Retirement hobby (was Re: 80286 protected mode) Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2024-10-24 07:39 +0200
                                                                        Re: Retirement hobby (was Re: 80286 protected mode) mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2024-10-24 18:32 +0000
                                                                          Re: Retirement hobby (was Re: 80286 protected mode) Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2024-10-28 11:39 +0100
                                                                          Re: Retirement hobby (was Re: 80286 protected mode) Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2024-10-28 16:30 +0000
                                                                            Re: Retirement hobby (was Re: 80286 protected mode) Stephen Fuld <sfuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> - 2024-10-28 10:12 -0700
                                                                              Re: Retirement hobby (was Re: 80286 protected mode) Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2024-10-28 18:14 +0000
                                                                            Re: Retirement hobby (was Re: 80286 protected mode) EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> - 2024-10-28 15:24 -0400
                                                                              Re: Retirement hobby (was Re: 80286 protected mode) Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2024-10-29 06:33 +0000
                                                                                Re: Retirement hobby (was Re: 80286 protected mode) Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2024-10-29 08:07 +0100
                                                                                  Re: Retirement hobby (was Re: 80286 protected mode) Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2024-10-29 19:57 +0000
                                                                                    Re: Retirement hobby (was Re: 80286 protected mode) mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2024-10-29 20:21 +0000
                                                                                      Re: Retirement hobby (was Re: 80286 protected mode) Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2024-10-29 21:27 +0000
                                                                                    Re: Retirement hobby (was Re: 80286 protected mode) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-10-29 20:30 +0000
                                                                                Re: Retirement hobby (was Re: 80286 protected mode) EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> - 2024-10-29 14:29 -0400
                                                                          Re: Retirement hobby (was Re: 80286 protected mode) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-10-29 14:19 -0400
                                                                Re: Retirement hobby (was Re: 80286 protected mode) Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2024-10-23 21:09 +0200
                                                                Re: Retirement hobby (was Re: 80286 protected mode) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2024-10-24 06:55 +0000
                                                                  Re: Retirement hobby (was Re: 80286 protected mode) David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-24 10:00 +0200
                                                                    Re: Retirement hobby (was Re: 80286 protected mode) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2024-10-24 16:34 +0000
                                                      Re: portable malloc Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-21 23:17 +0000
                                                        Re: portable malloc mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2024-10-21 23:52 +0000
                                                          Re: portable malloc Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-22 01:09 +0000
                                                            Re: portable malloc George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2024-10-22 17:26 -0400
                                                        Re: portable malloc Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2024-10-27 20:42 +0000
                                                          Re: portable malloc Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-27 21:04 +0000
                                                          Re: portable malloc David Schultz <david.schultz@earthlink.net> - 2024-10-27 17:55 -0500
                                                          Re: tiny portable malloc John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2024-10-27 23:58 +0000
                                    Re: 80286 protected mode Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2024-10-09 18:10 +0000
                                      Re: 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-09 22:22 +0200
                                        Re: 80286 protected mode mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2024-10-09 21:37 +0000
                                          Re: 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-10 08:31 +0200
                                            Re: 80286 protected mode mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2024-10-10 18:38 +0000
                                              Re: 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-10 21:21 +0200
                                                Re: 80286 protected mode scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-10-10 20:00 +0000
                                                  Re: 80286 protected mode Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-10 23:54 +0300
                                                    Re: 80286 protected mode scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-10-10 21:03 +0000
                                                Re: 80286 protected mode "Brian G. Lucas" <bagel99@gmail.com> - 2024-10-10 16:19 -0500
                                                  Re: 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-11 13:37 +0200
                                                    Re: 80286 protected mode Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-11 15:13 +0300
                                                      Re: 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-11 16:54 +0200
                                                        Re: 80286 protected mode Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-13 12:00 +0300
                                                          Re: 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-13 14:10 +0200
                                                Re: 80286 protected mode mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2024-10-10 21:30 +0000
                                                  Re: 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-11 14:10 +0200
                                                    Re: 80286 protected mode mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2024-10-11 18:55 +0000
                                                      Re: 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-12 00:02 +0200
                                                        Re: 80286 protected mode mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2024-10-11 23:32 +0000
                                                          Re: 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-12 17:16 +0200
                                                            Re: 80286 protected mode Bernd Linsel <bl1-thispartdoesnotbelonghere@gmx.com> - 2024-10-12 19:26 +0200
                                                              Re: 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-13 12:57 +0200
                                                                Re: 80286 protected mode Brett <ggtgp@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-13 19:36 +0000
                                                                  Re: 80286 protected mode scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-10-13 19:43 +0000
                                                                    Re: 80286 protected mode Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-13 23:01 +0300
                                                            Re: 80286 protected mode Brett <ggtgp@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-12 18:33 +0000
                                                              Re: 80286 protected mode Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> - 2024-10-13 10:31 +0300
                                                                Re: 80286 protected mode Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-13 12:26 +0300
                                                                  Re: 80286 protected mode Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> - 2024-10-13 13:33 +0300
                                                                  Re: 80286 protected mode "Brian G. Lucas" <bagel99@gmail.com> - 2024-10-13 15:32 -0500
                                                              Re: 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-13 13:58 +0200
                                                      Re: 80286 protected mode Brett <ggtgp@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-12 05:06 +0000
                                                        Re: 80286 protected mode "Brian G. Lucas" <bagel99@gmail.com> - 2024-10-12 12:36 -0500
                                                          Re: 80286 protected mode Brett <ggtgp@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-12 18:17 +0000
                                                            Re: 80286 protected mode mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2024-10-12 18:37 +0000
                                                              Re: 80286 protected mode Brett <ggtgp@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-13 01:25 +0000
                                                              Re: 80286 protected mode "Paul A. Clayton" <paaronclayton@gmail.com> - 2024-10-12 23:09 -0400
                                                        Re: 80286 protected mode mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2024-10-12 18:32 +0000
                                                          Re: 80286 protected mode Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-13 10:56 +0300
                                                            Re: 80286 protected mode "Paul A. Clayton" <paaronclayton@gmail.com> - 2024-10-13 13:32 -0400
                                                Re: 80286 protected mode Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2024-10-13 21:21 +0200
                                                  Re: 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-14 15:19 +0200
                                                    Re: 80286 protected mode Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2024-10-14 16:40 +0200
                                                      Re: 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-14 17:19 +0200
                                                        Re: 80286 protected mode Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-14 19:08 +0300
                                                          Re: 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-15 10:53 +0200
                                                            memcpy and friend (was: 80286 protected mode) Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-15 13:12 +0300
                                                              Re: memcpy and friend (was: 80286 protected mode) David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-15 13:20 +0200
                                                                Re: memcpy and friend (was: 80286 protected mode) Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-15 14:55 +0300
                                                                  Re: memcpy and friend (was: 80286 protected mode) David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-15 14:03 +0200
                                                          Re: 80286 protected mode Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-10-18 06:00 -0700
                                                      Re: 80286 protected mode Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-10-18 05:39 -0700
                                          Re: 80286 protected mode Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-10-12 05:11 -0700
                                    Re: 80286 protected mode anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2024-10-13 15:45 +0000
                                      Re: 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-14 17:04 +0200
                                        Re: 80286 protected mode mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2024-10-14 19:02 +0000
                                          Re: 80286 protected mode Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-14 22:20 +0300
                                            Re: 80286 protected mode mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2024-10-15 00:14 +0000
                                              Re: 80286 protected mode Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-15 10:41 +0300
                                          Re: 80286 protected mode scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-10-14 19:39 +0000
                                            Re: 80286 protected mode mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2024-10-15 00:15 +0000
                                            Re: 80286 protected mode Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-18 12:47 +0300
                                              Re: 80286 protected mode scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-10-18 14:06 +0000
                                                Re: 80286 protected mode Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-18 17:34 +0300
                                                  Re: 80286 protected mode scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-10-18 16:19 +0000
                                                    Re: 80286 protected mode Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-19 19:46 +0300
                                          Re: 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-15 12:38 +0200
                                            Re: 80286 protected mode Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-15 14:22 +0300
                                              Re: 80286 protected mode David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-10-15 14:09 +0200
                                                Re: 80286 protected mode Brett <ggtgp@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-15 19:46 +0000
                              Re: 80286 protected mode John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2024-10-08 16:00 +0000
                                Re: 80286 protected mode anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2024-10-08 16:23 +0000
                                  Re: 80286 protected mode John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2024-10-08 21:03 +0000
                                    Re: 80286 protected mode Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-15 05:20 +0000
                                    Re: 80286 protected mode Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-15 11:59 +0300
                                      Re: 80286 protected mode Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-18 07:01 +0000
                          Re: Byte ordering antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2025-01-03 03:37 +0000
                            Re: Byte ordering anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-01-03 08:38 +0000
                              Re: Byte ordering scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-03 18:11 +0000
                              Re: Byte ordering antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2025-01-04 22:40 +0000
                                Re: Byte ordering Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2025-01-05 08:54 +0100
                                80286 protected mode (was: Byte ordering) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-01-05 11:10 +0000
                                  Re: 80286 protected mode (was: Byte ordering) Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.co.uk> - 2025-01-05 18:30 +0000
                                    Re: 80286 protected mode "Brian G. Lucas" <bagel99@gmail.com> - 2025-01-05 16:38 -0500
                                  Re: 80286 protected mode antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2025-01-05 21:49 +0000
                                    Re: 80286 protected mode George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2025-01-05 23:01 -0500
                                      Segments (was: 80286 protected mode) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-01-06 08:24 +0000
                                        Re: Segments (was: 80286 protected mode) Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-01-06 14:41 +0200
                                        Re: Segments Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2025-01-06 16:05 +0100
                                          Re: Segments anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-01-06 16:36 +0000
                                            Re: Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-01-06 19:49 +0000
                                          Re: Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-01-06 19:41 +0000
                                            Re: Segments Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2025-01-07 11:45 +0100
                                          Re: Segments Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2025-01-06 22:02 +0000
                                            Re: Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-06 22:57 +0000
                                              Re: Segments Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2025-01-07 11:05 +0000
                                                Re: Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-07 14:43 +0000
                                                  Re: Segments Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-01-07 17:04 +0200
                                                    Re: Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-07 15:28 +0000
                                                      Re: Segments Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2025-01-07 16:41 +0000
                                                    Re: Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-01-07 20:16 +0000
                                                      Re: Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-07 21:26 +0000
                                                      Re: Segments Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2025-01-07 22:01 +0000
                                                        Re: Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-01-07 23:16 +0000
                                                          Re: Segments Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2025-01-08 11:53 +0000
                                                            Re: Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-01-11 22:31 +0000
                                                Re: Segments Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-01-14 17:46 -0800
                                                  Re: Segments Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2025-01-15 07:09 +0000
                                                    Re: Segments Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-01-15 14:00 +0200
                                                      Re: Segments Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2025-01-15 18:00 +0000
                                                        Re: Segments Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-01-15 22:28 +0200
                                                          Re: Segments Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2025-01-15 20:59 +0000
                                                            Re: Segments David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-01-16 12:36 +0100
                                                              Re: Segments Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-01-16 14:35 +0200
                                                                Re: Segments David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-01-16 13:59 +0100
                                                                  Re: Segments antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2025-01-16 16:46 +0000
                                                                    Re: Segments Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2025-01-16 18:12 +0000
                                                                      Re: Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-01-16 18:30 +0000
                                                                        Re: Stacks, was Segments John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2025-01-18 03:08 +0000
                                                                          Re: Stacks, was Segments Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> - 2025-01-18 10:59 +0200
                                                                            Re: Stacks, was Segments John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2025-01-18 19:41 +0000
                                                                            Re: Stacks, was Segments David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-01-19 17:33 +0100
                                                                              Re: Stacks, was Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-01-19 18:28 +0000
                                                                                Re: Stacks, was Segments Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-01-20 12:55 +0200
                                                                                  Re: Stacks, was Segments antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2025-01-20 11:12 +0000
                                                                                    Re: Stacks, was Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-01-20 22:05 +0000
                                                                                      Re: Stacks, was Segments Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-01-21 01:25 +0200
                                                                                        Re: Stacks, was Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-01-21 00:17 +0000
                                                                                      Re: Stacks, was Segments Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2025-01-21 06:21 +0000
                                                                                      Re: Stacks, was Segments Bill Findlay <findlaybill@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2025-01-21 10:36 +0000
                                                                                        Re: Stacks, was Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-01-21 17:49 +0000
                                                                                      Re: Stacks, was Segments Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2025-02-03 14:09 -0500
                                                                                        Re: Stacks, was Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-02-03 21:13 +0000
                                                                                          Re: Stacks, was Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-02-03 21:23 +0000
                                                                                            Re: Stacks, was Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-02-03 22:47 +0000
                                                                                              Re: Stacks, was Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-02-03 23:11 +0000
                                                                                                Re: Stacks, was Segments EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> - 2025-02-05 12:11 -0500
                                                                                                  Re: Stacks, was Segments EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> - 2025-02-05 14:55 -0500
                                                                                                  Re: Stacks, was Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-02-05 23:36 +0000
                                                                                                    Re: Stacks, was Segments EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> - 2025-02-06 11:41 -0500
                                                                                                      Re: Stacks, was Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-02-06 17:13 +0000
                                                                                                        Re: Stacks, was Segments EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> - 2025-02-06 13:51 -0500
                                                                                                          Re: Stacks, was Segments Stephen Fuld <sfuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> - 2025-02-06 12:06 -0800
                                                                                                            Re: Stacks, was Segments EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> - 2025-02-06 16:53 -0500
                                                                                                              Re: Stacks, was Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-02-07 02:53 +0000
                                                                                                                Re: Stacks, was Segments EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> - 2025-02-09 15:45 -0500
                                                                                                                  Re: Stacks, was Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-02-09 21:03 +0000
                                                                                                            Re: Stacks, was Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-02-07 02:39 +0000
                                                                                                              Re: Stacks, was Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-02-07 13:57 +0000
                                                                                                                Re: Stacks, was Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-02-07 18:25 +0000
                                                                                                                  Re: Stacks, was Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-02-07 20:32 +0000
                                                                                                                    Re: Stacks, was Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-02-08 22:19 +0000
                                                                                                                      Re: Stacks, was Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-02-10 20:18 +0000
                                                                                                                        Re: Stacks, was Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-02-10 23:40 +0000
                                                                                                                          Re: Stacks, was Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-02-11 14:04 +0000
                                                                                                                            Re: Stacks, was Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-02-11 20:19 +0000
                                                                                                                              Re: Stacks, was Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-02-11 20:49 +0000
                                                                                                                                Re: Stacks, was Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-02-11 23:29 +0000
                                                                                                                                  Re: Stacks, was Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-02-12 00:34 +0000
                                                                                                                                    Re: Stacks, was Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-02-13 16:42 +0000
                                                                                                                                      Re: Stacks, was Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-02-13 18:12 +0000
                                                                                                                                        Re: Stacks, was Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-02-13 21:48 +0000
                                                                                                                                          Re: Stacks, was Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-02-13 22:23 +0000
                                                                                                                                  Re: Stacks, was Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-02-14 19:13 +0000
                                                                                                                                    Re: Stacks, was Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-02-14 19:51 +0000
                                                                                                                                      Re: Stacks, was Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-02-14 21:50 +0000
                                                                                                                                        Re: Stacks, was Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-02-15 15:31 +0000
                                                                                                                                          Re: Stacks, was Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-02-15 23:28 +0000
                                                                                                                                            Re: Stacks, was Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-02-16 19:56 +0000
                                                                                                              Re: Stacks, was Segments Stephen Fuld <sfuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> - 2025-02-11 09:30 -0800
                                                                                                                Re: Stacks, was Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-02-11 18:19 +0000
                                                                                                          Re: Stacks, was Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-02-06 20:49 +0000
                                                                                                Re: Stacks, was Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-02-05 21:31 +0000
                                                                              Re: Stacks, was Segments Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> - 2025-01-19 23:37 +0200
                                                                                Re: Stacks, was Segments David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-01-20 09:00 +0100
                                                                            Re: Stacks, was Segments Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-01-27 17:26 -0800
                                                                          Re: Stacks, was Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-18 16:30 +0000
                                                                            Re: Stacks, was Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-01-18 17:40 +0000
                                                                      Re: Segments Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-01-16 20:46 +0200
                                                                      Re: Segments antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2025-01-16 20:34 +0000
                                                                        Re: Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-16 21:02 +0000
                                                                    Re: Segments David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-01-16 22:16 +0100
                                                                      Re: Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-16 21:40 +0000
                                                                        Re: Segments David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-01-17 10:20 +0100
                                                                          Re: Segments "Brian G. Lucas" <bagel99@gmail.com> - 2025-01-17 10:08 -0500
                                                                            Re: Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-17 15:17 +0000
                                                                        Re: Segments jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) - 2025-01-19 18:49 +0000
                                                                      Re: Segments antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2025-01-17 02:22 +0000
                                                                        Re: Segments Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-01-16 19:52 -0800
                                                                          Re: Segments David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-01-17 15:52 +0100
                                                                        Re: Segments David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-01-17 15:30 +0100
                                                                      Re: Segments Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2025-01-17 16:42 +0000
                                                                        Re: Segments David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-01-17 18:21 +0100
                                                                          Re: Segments Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2025-01-17 20:08 +0000
                                                                        Re: Segments George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2025-01-21 20:30 -0500
                                                                          Re: Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-01-22 02:19 +0000
                                                                            Re: Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-22 14:58 +0000
                                                                              Re: Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-01-22 17:45 +0000
                                                                                Re: Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-22 20:00 +0000
                                                                                  Re: Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-01-22 22:25 +0000
                                                                                    Re: Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-22 22:44 +0000
                                                                                      Re: Segments Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-01-23 01:39 +0200
                                                                                        Re: Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-23 01:00 +0000
                                                                                          Re: Segments Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-01-23 11:52 +0200
                                                                                            Re: Segments Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-01-23 17:41 +0200
                                                                                              Re: Segments EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> - 2025-01-23 14:22 -0500
                                                                                        Re: Segments anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-01-23 08:14 +0000
                                                                                          Re: Segments Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-01-23 12:23 +0200
                                                                                            Re: Segments anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-01-23 12:39 +0000
                                                                                              Re: Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-23 14:04 +0000
                                                                                            Re: Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-23 14:31 +0000
                                                                                            Re: Segments Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-01-27 17:18 -0800
                                                                                          Re: Segments Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-01-23 14:02 -0800
                                                                                      Re: Segments George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2025-01-23 11:50 -0500
                                                                                        Re: Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-23 17:18 +0000
                                                                          Re: stack sizes, Segments John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2025-01-22 02:54 +0000
                                                                            Re: stack sizes, Segments Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-01-22 15:25 +0200
                                                                              Re: stack sizes, Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-22 15:01 +0000
                                                                                Re: stack sizes, Segments Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-01-23 01:45 +0200
                                                                                  Re: stack sizes, Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-23 01:07 +0000
                                                                                    Re: stack sizes, Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-01-23 02:47 +0000
                                                                                      Re: stack sizes, Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-23 14:00 +0000
                                                                                        Re: stack sizes, Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-01-23 17:49 +0000
                                                                                          Re: stack sizes, Segments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-23 19:45 +0000
                                                                                            Re: stack sizes, Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-01-23 20:04 +0000
                                                                                            Re: stack sizes, Segments anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-01-24 08:11 +0000
                                                                                              Re: stack sizes, Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-01-24 14:50 +0000
                                                                                    Re: stack sizes, Segments anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-01-23 07:24 +0000
                                                                                Re: stack sizes, Segments George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2025-01-22 20:28 -0500
                                                          Re: Segments David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-01-16 11:43 +0100
                                                    Re: Segments Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-01-15 13:42 -0800
                                                      Re: Segments Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2025-01-15 22:39 +0000
                                                    Re: Segments Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2025-01-16 10:11 +0100
                                                      Re: Segments David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-01-16 13:11 +0100
                                                        Re: Segments Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-01-16 13:10 -0800
                                                          Re: Segments David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-01-16 22:23 +0100
                                                      Re: Segments Stephen Fuld <sfuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> - 2025-01-16 09:15 -0800
                                                        Re: Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-01-16 17:24 +0000
                                                          Re: Segments Stephen Fuld <sfuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> - 2025-01-16 09:55 -0800
                                                            Re: Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-01-16 18:23 +0000
                                                            Re: Segments Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2025-01-16 20:22 +0100
                                                          Re: Segments Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2025-01-16 19:14 +0000
                                                        Re: Segments Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2025-01-16 20:12 +0100
                                                          Re: Segments Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-01-16 15:18 -0800
                                                            Re: Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-01-16 23:39 +0000
                                                              Re: Segments Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-01-16 17:04 -0800
                                                                Re: Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-01-17 02:10 +0000
                                                                  Re: Segments David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-01-17 16:15 +0100
                                                                    Re: Segments Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2025-01-17 18:02 +0100
                                                                    Re: Segments Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-01-17 10:55 -0800
                                                                Re: Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-01-17 19:27 +0000
                                                              Re: Segments Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-01-17 21:05 -0800
                                                          Re: Segments Stephen Fuld <sfuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> - 2025-01-20 12:29 -0800
                                                            Re: Segments Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2025-01-22 14:15 +0100
                                                              Re: Segments Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2025-01-22 18:44 +0000
                                            Re: Segments mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-01-06 23:41 +0000
                                              Re: Segments Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2025-01-07 10:53 +0000
                                        Re: Segments Andy Valencia <vandys@vsta.org> - 2025-01-11 13:59 -0800
                                      Re: what's a segment, 80286 protected mode John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2025-01-06 18:58 +0000
                                        Re: what's a segment, 80286 protected mode scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-06 19:45 +0000
                                        Re: what's a segment, 80286 protected mode scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-06 19:48 +0000
                                        Re: what's a segment, 80286 protected mode Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2025-01-06 17:28 -1000
                                Re: Byte ordering scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-05 15:20 +0000
                              Re: the 286, Byte ordering John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2025-01-05 02:56 +0000
                                Re: the 286, Byte ordering mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-01-05 03:55 +0000
                                  Re: the 286, Byte ordering jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) - 2025-01-05 15:15 +0000
                                    Re: the 286, Byte ordering scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-05 15:23 +0000
                                    Re: the 286, Byte ordering anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-01-05 17:51 +0000
                                      Re: the 286, Byte ordering mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-01-05 19:40 +0000
                                      Re: the 286, Byte ordering John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2025-01-05 20:01 +0000
                                        Re: the 286, Byte ordering Brett <ggtgp@yahoo.com> - 2025-01-05 20:46 +0000
                                        Re: the 286, Byte ordering mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-01-05 20:55 +0000
                                          Re: the 286, Byte ordering Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2025-01-05 22:01 +0100
                                            Re: the 286, Byte ordering jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) - 2025-01-06 00:35 +0000
                                              Re: the 286, Byte ordering mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-01-06 03:02 +0000
                                                Re: the 286, Byte ordering Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-01-06 15:19 +0200
                              Re: Byte ordering jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) - 2025-01-05 14:48 +0000
                  Re: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not) Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-06 18:50 +0300
                    Re: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-07 06:33 +0000
                Re: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not) jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) - 2024-10-03 23:49 +0100
        Re: Whether something is RISC or not (Re: PDP-8 theology, not Concertina II Progress) Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2024-10-02 20:23 +0000
      Re: Whether something is RISC or not (Re: PDP-8 theology, not Concertina II Progress) David Schultz <david.schultz@earthlink.net> - 2024-10-02 10:07 -0500
        Re: Whether something is RISC or not (Re: PDP-8 theology, not Concertina II Progress) Brett <ggtgp@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-02 16:08 +0000
          Re: Whether something is RISC or not (Re: PDP-8 theology, not Concertina II Progress) David Schultz <david.schultz@earthlink.net> - 2024-10-02 13:51 -0500
          Re: Whether something is RISC or not (Re: PDP-8 theology, not Concertina II Progress) mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2024-10-02 21:34 +0000
            Re: Whether something is RISC or not (Re: PDP-8 theology, not Concertina II Progress) David Schultz <david.schultz@earthlink.net> - 2024-10-02 18:55 -0500
      Re: Whether something is RISC or not (Re: PDP-8 theology, not Concertina II Progress) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-03 00:30 +0000

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#109461 — Re: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not)

FromBrett <ggtgp@yahoo.com>
Date2024-10-05 17:52 +0000
SubjectRe: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not)
Message-ID<vdruc9$rfsp$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#109450
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Oct 2024 17:30:07 GMT, Anton Ertl wrote:
> 
>> The fact that the 386SX only appeared in 1988 also did not help.
> 
> As a software guy, I liked the idea of the 386SX, and encouraged friends/
> colleagues to choose it over a 286.
> 
> Of course, they wanted to compare price/performance, but I saw things in 
> terms of future software compatibility, and the sooner the move away from 
> braindead x86 segmentation towards a nice, flat, expansive, linear address 
> space, the better for everybody.
> 
> Sometimes I felt like a voice crying in the wilderness ...


Didn’t it take a decade for the 386 to get a 32 bit OS, by which time the
early machines were long since in the garbage bin, making the extra cost a
waste.

The AMD 286 was faster and cheaper, better lifetime value for the money.

You were a voice crying in the wilderness, because you were wrong. ;)

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#109464 — Re: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not)

Fromanton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Date2024-10-05 18:11 +0000
SubjectRe: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not)
Message-ID<2024Oct5.201155@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>
In reply to#109461
Brett <ggtgp@yahoo.com> writes:
>Didn’t it take a decade for the 386 to get a 32 bit OS

386/ix appeared in 1985, exactly 0 years after the 386.  Xenix/386 and
Windows/386 appeared in 1987.

- anton
-- 
'Anyone trying for "industrial quality" ISA should avoid undefined behavior.'
  Mitch Alsup, <c17fcd89-f024-40e7-a594-88a85ac10d20o@googlegroups.com>

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#109466 — Re: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not)

FromMichael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
Date2024-10-05 22:53 +0300
SubjectRe: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not)
Message-ID<20241005225335.00002fa4@yahoo.com>
In reply to#109464
On Sat, 05 Oct 2024 18:11:55 GMT
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote:

> Brett <ggtgp@yahoo.com> writes:
> >Didn’t it take a decade for the 386 to get a 32 bit OS  
> 
> 386/ix appeared in 1985, exactly 0 years after the 386.  Xenix/386 and
> Windows/386 appeared in 1987.
> 
> - anton

SunOS for i386 in 1988.
Netware 3x in 1990.
The later sold in very high volumes.

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#109496 — Re: Byte ordering

FromTerje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no>
Date2024-10-06 22:07 +0200
SubjectRe: Byte ordering
Message-ID<vduqlg$1bocb$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#109466
Michael S wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Oct 2024 18:11:55 GMT
> anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote:
> 
>> Brett <ggtgp@yahoo.com> writes:
>>> Didn’t it take a decade for the 386 to get a 32 bit OS
>>
>> 386/ix appeared in 1985, exactly 0 years after the 386.  Xenix/386 and
>> Windows/386 appeared in 1987.
>>
>> - anton
> 
> SunOS for i386 in 1988.
> Netware 3x in 1990.
> The later sold in very high volumes.

It deserved to do so:

For what it was doing (file/print service), it was by far the most 
efficient product I've even heard of!

Drew Major managed to get the total latency of the "ack network 
interrupt, parse incoming packet, determine that it is a read request 
for which the client has the required access rights, locate the 
requested data somewhere in the memory cache, construct a response 
packet and hand it off to the network card" down to 300 clock cycles.

Those clock cycles _might_ have been measured on a 486 with mostly 
single-cycle instructions, instead of the original 386 which needed 2+ 
clock cycles for lots of stuff. The point still stands, it was amazingly 
efficient.

Terje

-- 
- <Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no>
"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"

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#109497 — Re: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not)

FromBrett <ggtgp@yahoo.com>
Date2024-10-06 21:53 +0000
SubjectRe: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not)
Message-ID<vdv0t0$1ckqf$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#109466
Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Oct 2024 18:11:55 GMT
> anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote:
> 
>> Brett <ggtgp@yahoo.com> writes:
>>> Didn’t it take a decade for the 386 to get a 32 bit OS  
>> 
>> 386/ix appeared in 1985, exactly 0 years after the 386.  Xenix/386 and
>> Windows/386 appeared in 1987.
>> 
>> - anton
> 
> SunOS for i386 in 1988.
> Netware 3x in 1990.
> The later sold in very high volumes.

The first 32 bit windows was Windows 95, a full decade later.
Windows 386 was 16 bit as was Windows 2.x.

I do concede to being wrong about the unix ports.

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#109510 — Re: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not)

FromLawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Date2024-10-07 06:29 +0000
SubjectRe: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not)
Message-ID<vdvv3o$1k931$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#109497
On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 21:53:36 -0000 (UTC), Brett wrote:

> The first 32 bit windows was Windows 95 ...

Windows NT 3.1, 1993.

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#109526 — Re: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not)

FromBrett <ggtgp@yahoo.com>
Date2024-10-07 16:16 +0000
SubjectRe: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not)
Message-ID<ve11h0$1pbco$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#109510
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 21:53:36 -0000 (UTC), Brett wrote:
> 
>> The first 32 bit windows was Windows 95 ...
> 
> Windows NT 3.1, 1993.

So 8 years, that PC would still be in the trash can by then.

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#109528 — Re: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not)

FromMichael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
Date2024-10-07 19:57 +0300
SubjectRe: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not)
Message-ID<20241007195744.0000483e@yahoo.com>
In reply to#109526
On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 16:16:32 -0000 (UTC)
Brett <ggtgp@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> > On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 21:53:36 -0000 (UTC), Brett wrote:
> >   
> >> The first 32 bit windows was Windows 95 ...  
> > 
> > Windows NT 3.1, 1993.  
> 
> So 8 years, that PC would still be 
> 

Wikipedia:
Development of i386 technology began in 1982 under the internal name of
P3.[4] The tape-out of the 80386 development was finalized in July
1985.[4] The 80386 was introduced as pre-production samples for
software development workstations in October 1985.[5] Manufacturing of
the chips in significant quantities commenced in June 1986.

> in the trash can by then.

Not every PC made in those years was crap. Some of them were quite
reliable and lasted long.

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#109547 — Re: Byte ordering

FromStefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Date2024-10-07 16:00 -0400
SubjectRe: Byte ordering
Message-ID<jwvcykbbsaf.fsf-monnier+comp.arch@gnu.org>
In reply to#109528
> Not every PC made in those years was crap.  Some of them were quite
> reliable and lasted long.

But back then, Dennard scaling meant that an 8 year-old PC was so much
slower than a current PC that it was difficult to find people willing to
still use it.

Nowadays, for a large proportion of tasks, you can't really tell the
difference between a last-generation CPU and an 8 year-old CPU, so the
reliability is much more of a factor.


        Stefan

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#109552 — Re: Byte ordering

FromMichael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
Date2024-10-08 00:11 +0300
SubjectRe: Byte ordering
Message-ID<20241008001131.00006e2a@yahoo.com>
In reply to#109547
On Mon, 07 Oct 2024 16:00:38 -0400
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> > Not every PC made in those years was crap.  Some of them were quite
> > reliable and lasted long.  
> 
> But back then, Dennard scaling meant that an 8 year-old PC was so much
> slower than a current PC that it was difficult to find people willing
> to still use it.
> 
> Nowadays, for a large proportion of tasks, you can't really tell the
> difference between a last-generation CPU and an 8 year-old CPU, so the
> reliability is much more of a factor.
> 
> 
>         Stefan

In March 1992 as a new employee I was given a PC based on 386SX. 
I don't remember if the clock was 16 MHz or 20 MHz, but no more than 20.
1.5 years later when I started to work at client's site for the most of
my time, this PC was still my only desktop when I was coming back to
office. 
High-end PC made in 1986, e.g. Compaq Deskpro 386, would be
non-trivially faster than this cheap, but far from the cheapest,
computer that I used daily 7.5 years later.

Did it feel so slow that was difficult to use? No, for what I was doing
it wasn't.

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#109555 — Re: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not)

FromLawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Date2024-10-07 21:46 +0000
SubjectRe: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not)
Message-ID<ve1krk$1s0ug$3@dont-email.me>
In reply to#109528
On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 19:57:44 +0300, Michael S wrote:

> The 80386 was introduced as pre-production samples for software
> development workstations in October 1985.[5] Manufacturing of the chips
> in significant quantities commenced in June 1986.

And the first vendor to offer a Microsoft-compatible PC product based on 
that chip? Compaq, with its “Deskpro 386” that same year, I believe.

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#109570 — Re: Byte ordering

FromTerje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no>
Date2024-10-08 10:40 +0200
SubjectRe: Byte ordering
Message-ID<ve2r59$24hio$2@dont-email.me>
In reply to#109555
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 19:57:44 +0300, Michael S wrote:
> 
>> The 80386 was introduced as pre-production samples for software
>> development workstations in October 1985.[5] Manufacturing of the chips
>> in significant quantities commenced in June 1986.
> 
> And the first vendor to offer a Microsoft-compatible PC product based on
> that chip? Compaq, with its “Deskpro 386” that same year, I believe.
> 
I got one of those that fall, most impressive was the fact hhat you 
could order it with a 130 MB hard drive, an almost unheard of size at 
the time:

Even though this was an expensive PC, it cost no more with that drive 
(i.e. the highest end version) than a Micropolis hard drive of the same 
size. I.e. the PC was effectively free. :-)

Terje

-- 
- <Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no>
"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"

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#109483 — Re: Byte ordering

FromDavid Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
Date2024-10-06 11:58 +0200
SubjectRe: Byte ordering
Message-ID<vdtmv9$16lu8$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#109432
On 04/10/2024 19:30, Anton Ertl wrote:
> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
>> On 04/10/2024 00:17, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> Compare this with the pain the x86 world went through, over a much longer
>>> time, to move to 32-bit.
>>
>> The x86 started from 8-bit roots, and increased width over time, which
>> is a very different path.
> 
> Still, the question is why they did the 286 (released 1982) with its
> protected mode instead of adding IA-32 to the architecture, maybe at
> the start with a 386SX-like package and with real-mode only, or with
> the MMU in a separate chip (like the 68020/68551).
> 

I can only guess the obvious - it is what some big customer(s) were 
asking for.  Maybe Intel didn't see the need for 32-bit computing in the 
markets they were targeting, or at least didn't see it as worth the cost.

>> And much of the reason for it being a slow development is that the world
>> was held back by MS's lack of progress in using new features.  The 80386
>> was produced in 1986, but the MS world was firmly at 16-bit under it
>> gained a bit of 32-bit features with Windows 95.  (Windows NT was 32-bit
>>from 1993, and Win32s was from around the same time, but these were 
>> relatively small in the market.)
> 
> At that time the market was moving much slower than nowadays.  Systems
> with a 286 (and maybe even the 8088) were sold for a long time after
> the 386 was introduced.  E.g., the IBM PS/1 Model 2011 was released in
> 1990 with a 10MHz 286, and the successor Model 2121 with a 386SX was
> not introduced until 1992.  I think it's hard to blame MS for
> targeting the machines that were out there.  

It is fair enough to target the existing market, but they were also slow 
(IMHO) to take advantage of new opportunities in hardware, re-enforcing 
the situation.  I think MS and their monopoly on markets caused a 
stagnation - lack of real competition meant lack of progress.

> And looking at
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2.1x>, Windows 2.1 in 1988
> already was available in a Windows/386 version (but the programs were
> running in virtual 8086 mode, i.e., were still 16-bit programs).
> 
> And it was not just MS who was going in that direction.  MS and IBM
> worked on OS/2, and despite ambitious goals IBM insisted that the
> software had to run on a 286.
> 

IBM were famous for poor (and perhaps cowardly) decisions at the time, 
and MS happily screwed them over again and again in regards to OS/2.  It 
takes a special kind of bad management for a company of IBM's size to 
make PC's, and to make a PC OS, and yet that OS could not run on their 
own PC's.  Later, once OS/2 /did/ run on IBM PC's, they would not sell 
computers with their own OS pre-installed - you had to first by the 
machine with the competitor's OS, then buy IBM's OS at retail prices, 
and install it yourself (from some 50-60 floppy disks, IIRC).

> The fact that the 386SX only appeared in 1988 also did not help.
> 
> - anton

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#109490 — Re: Byte ordering

Fromanton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Date2024-10-06 13:04 +0000
SubjectRe: Byte ordering
Message-ID<2024Oct6.150415@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>
In reply to#109483
David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
>On 04/10/2024 19:30, Anton Ertl wrote:
>> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
>>> On 04/10/2024 00:17, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>> Compare this with the pain the x86 world went through, over a much longer
>>>> time, to move to 32-bit.
>>>
>>> The x86 started from 8-bit roots, and increased width over time, which
>>> is a very different path.
>> 
>> Still, the question is why they did the 286 (released 1982) with its
>> protected mode instead of adding IA-32 to the architecture, maybe at
>> the start with a 386SX-like package and with real-mode only, or with
>> the MMU in a separate chip (like the 68020/68551).
>> 
>
>I can only guess the obvious - it is what some big customer(s) were 
>asking for.  Maybe Intel didn't see the need for 32-bit computing in the 
>markets they were targeting, or at least didn't see it as worth the cost.

Anyone could see the problems that the PDP-11 had with its 16-bit
limitation.  Intel saw it in the iAPX 432 starting in 1975.  It is
obvious that, as soon as memory grows beyond 64KB (and already the
8086 catered for that), the protected mode of the 80286 would be more
of a hindrance than even the real mode of the 8086.  I find it hard to
believe that many customers would ask Intel for something the 80286
protected mode with segments limited to 64KB, and even if, that Intel
would listen to them.  This looks much more like an idee fixe to me
that one or more of the 286 project leaders had, and all customer
input was made to fit into this idea, or was ignored.

Concerning the cost, ther 80286 has 134,000 transistors, compared to
supposedly 68,000 for the 68000, and the 190,000 of the 68020.  I am
sure that Intel could have managed a 32-bit 8086 (maybe even with the
nice addressing modes that the 386 has in 32-bit mode) with those
134,000 transistors if Motorola could build the 68000 with half of
that.

>It is fair enough to target the existing market, but they were also slow 
>(IMHO) to take advantage of new opportunities in hardware, re-enforcing 
>the situation.

They introduced Windows/386 in 1987.

>I think MS and their monopoly on markets caused a 
>stagnation - lack of real competition meant lack of progress.

Monopoly?  These were the times with lots of competition from
different hardware and software manufacturers.  Apple with the Apple
II, Lisa and MacIntosh, Atari with their 8-bit line and ther Atari ST
line, Commodore with their 8-bit line and their Amiga line, and, on
the software side, Digital Research with CP/M(-86/68K) and GEM, and
various Unix offerings, including Xenix.  Were they all no real
competition?  Not in my book.  It's just that Microsoft eventually
won, maybe accidentially (as it happens in a winner-takes-all market).

>IBM were famous for poor (and perhaps cowardly) decisions at the time, 
>and MS happily screwed them over again and again in regards to OS/2.

Another interpretation is that MS went faithfully into OS/2, assigning
not just their Xenix team to it (although according to Wikipedia the
Xenix abandonment by MS was due to AT&T entering the Unix market) and
reportedly also assigned the best MS-DOS developers to OS/2.  They
tried to stick to OS/2 for several years, but eventually were fed up
with all the bad decisions coming from IBM, and bowed out.

- anton
-- 
'Anyone trying for "industrial quality" ISA should avoid undefined behavior.'
  Mitch Alsup, <c17fcd89-f024-40e7-a594-88a85ac10d20o@googlegroups.com>

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#109494 — Re: Byte ordering

Fromjgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman)
Date2024-10-06 16:34 +0100
SubjectRe: Byte ordering
Message-ID<memo.20241006163428.19028W@jgd.cix.co.uk>
In reply to#109490
In article <2024Oct6.150415@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>,
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote:

> I find it hard to believe that many customers would ask Intel 
> for something the 80286 protected mode with segments limited 
> to 64KB, and even if, that Intel would listen to them.  This 
> looks much more like an idee fixe to me that one or more of 
> the 286 project leaders had, and all customer input was made 
> to fit into this idea, or was ignored.

Either half-remembered from older architectures, or re-invented and
considered viable a decade after the original inventors had learned
better. 

> Another interpretation is that MS went faithfully into OS/2, 
> assigning not just their Xenix team to it (although according 
> to Wikipedia the Xenix abandonment by MS was due to AT&T 
> entering the Unix market) and reportedly also assigned the best 
> MS-DOS developers to OS/2.  They tried to stick to OS/2 for 
> several years, but eventually were fed up with all the bad 
> decisions coming from IBM, and bowed out.

It's known that they split the work with IBM, such the MS would do a
redesigned OS/2 that was intended to be version 3.0, while IBM
concentrated on 2.0. A friend of mine was working on OS/2 within IBM at
the time, until he left with serious stress and depression: the people
management was not good. 

Then MS switched emphasis, so that the Windows API was the primary
personality of OS/2 3.0, and renamed it Windows NT. That also had an OS/2
personality at the start, along with a POSIX personality. 

John 

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#109511 — Re: Byte ordering

FromLawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Date2024-10-07 06:32 +0000
SubjectRe: Byte ordering
Message-ID<vdvvae$1k931$2@dont-email.me>
In reply to#109494
On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 16:34 +0100 (BST), John Dallman wrote:

> Then MS switched emphasis, so that the Windows API was the primary
> personality of OS/2 3.0, and renamed it Windows NT.

Dave Cutler came from DEC (where he was one of the resident Unix-haters) 
to mastermind the Windows NT project in 1988. When did the OS/2→NT pivot 
take place?

> That also had an OS/2 personality at the start, along with a POSIX
> personality.

Funny, you’d think they would use that same “personality” system to 
implement WSL1, the Linux-emulation layer. But they didn’t.

I think the whole “personality” concept, along with the supposed 
portability to non-x86 architectures, had just bit-rotted away by that 
point.

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#109580 — Re: Byte ordering

Fromjgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman)
Date2024-10-08 22:28 +0100
SubjectRe: Byte ordering
Message-ID<memo.20241008222803.19028a@jgd.cix.co.uk>
In reply to#109511
In article <vdvvae$1k931$2@dont-email.me>, ldo@nz.invalid (Lawrence
D'Oliveiro) wrote:

> Dave Cutler came from DEC (where he was one of the resident 
> Unix-haters) to mastermind the Windows NT project in 1988. When did 
> the OS/2-NT pivot take place?

1990, after the release of Windows 3.0, which was an immediate commercial
success. It was the first version that you could get serious work out of.
It's been compared to a camel: a vicious brute at times, but capable of
doing a lot of carrying. 

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2#1990:_Breakup>

> Funny, you'd think they would use that same _personality_ system to 
> implement WSL1, the Linux-emulation layer. But they didn't.

They were called subsystems in Windows NT, and ran on top of the NT
kernel. The POSIX one came first, and was very limited, followed by the
Interix one that was called Windows Services for Unix. Programs for both
of these were in PE-COFF format, not ELF. There was also the OS/2
subsystem, but it only ran text-mode programs. 

The POSIX subsystem was there to meet US government purchasing
requirements, not to be used for anything serious. I can't imagine Dave
Cutler was keen on it. 

WSL1 seems to have been something odd: rather than a single subsystem, a
bunch of mini-subsystems. However, VMS/NT kernels just have different
assumptions about programs from Unix-style kernels, so they went to
lightweight virtualisation in WSL2. 

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux#History>

The same problem seems to have messed up all the attempts to provide good
Unix emulation on VMS. It's notable that MICA started out trying to
provide both VMS and Unix APIs, but this was dropped in favour of a
separate Unix OS before MICA was cancelled.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_MICA#Design_goals>

> I think the whole _personality_ concept, along with the supposed 
> portability to non-x86 architectures, had just bit-rotted away by 
> that point.

Some combination of that, Microsoft confidence that "of course we can do
something better now!" - they are very prone to overconfidence - and the
terrible tendency of programmers to ignore the details of the old code. 

John 

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#109592 — Re: Byte ordering

FromEricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com>
Date2024-10-09 13:37 -0400
SubjectRe: Byte ordering
Message-ID<nczNO.129339$WtV9.7429@fx10.iad>
In reply to#109580
John Dallman wrote:
> In article <vdvvae$1k931$2@dont-email.me>, ldo@nz.invalid (Lawrence
> D'Oliveiro) wrote:
> 
>> Dave Cutler came from DEC (where he was one of the resident 
>> Unix-haters) to mastermind the Windows NT project in 1988. When did 
>> the OS/2-NT pivot take place?
> 
> 1990, after the release of Windows 3.0, which was an immediate commercial
> success. It was the first version that you could get serious work out of.
> It's been compared to a camel: a vicious brute at times, but capable of
> doing a lot of carrying. 
> 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2#1990:_Breakup>
> 
>> Funny, you'd think they would use that same _personality_ system to 
>> implement WSL1, the Linux-emulation layer. But they didn't.
> 
> They were called subsystems in Windows NT, and ran on top of the NT
> kernel. The POSIX one came first, and was very limited, followed by the
> Interix one that was called Windows Services for Unix. Programs for both
> of these were in PE-COFF format, not ELF. There was also the OS/2
> subsystem, but it only ran text-mode programs. 
> 
> The POSIX subsystem was there to meet US government purchasing
> requirements, not to be used for anything serious. I can't imagine Dave
> Cutler was keen on it. 

The Posix interface support was there so *MS* could bid on US government
and military contracts which, at that time frame, were making noise about
it being standard for all their contracts.
The Posix DLLs didn't come with WinNT, you had to ask MS for them specially.

The US government eventually stopped pushing for Posix and Windows
support for it quietly disappeared.

WinNT's OS2 subsystem also quietly disappeared.

> WSL1 seems to have been something odd: rather than a single subsystem, a
> bunch of mini-subsystems. However, VMS/NT kernels just have different
> assumptions about programs from Unix-style kernels, so they went to
> lightweight virtualisation in WSL2. 

Yes. VMS and WinNT handle memory sections differently than *nix.
That difference makes fork() system call essentially impossible to
implement on VMS/WinNT except by copying the address space.

Note that back then Posix did not require fork be supported,
just fork-exec (aka spawn) which does not require duplicating memory space,
just carrying file and socket handles to the child process which
NT handles natively.

In the VMS/WinNT way, each memory section is defined as either shared
or private when created and cannot be changed. This allows optimizations
in page table and page file handling.

Whereas in *nix a process can map a file and there is just one section user,
then fork and now there are multiple section users. Then that child can
change the address space and fork again. *nix needs to maintain various
data structures to support forking memory just in case it happens.

WSL1 was an _emulation_ of Linux essentially as a subsystem like OS2 and
Posix were supported. WSL1 apparently supported fork() but did so by
copying memory space making it slow, whereas fork-exec/spawn would be fast.
Trying to emulate Linux with a privileged subsystem of helper processes
was likely (I never used it) a lot of work, slow, and flaky.

WSL2 sounds like they tossed the whole WSL1 thing and built a hyper-V
virtual machine to run native Linux on top of WinNT as a host.

> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux#History>
> 
> The same problem seems to have messed up all the attempts to provide good
> Unix emulation on VMS. It's notable that MICA started out trying to
> provide both VMS and Unix APIs, but this was dropped in favour of a
> separate Unix OS before MICA was cancelled.
> 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_MICA#Design_goals>
> 
>> I think the whole _personality_ concept, along with the supposed 
>> portability to non-x86 architectures, had just bit-rotted away by 
>> that point.
> 
> Some combination of that, Microsoft confidence that "of course we can do
> something better now!" - they are very prone to overconfidence - and the
> terrible tendency of programmers to ignore the details of the old code. 
> 
> John 

Back then "object oriented" and "micro-kernel" buzzwords were all the rage.

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#109603 — VMS/NT memory management (was: Byte ordering)

FromStefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Date2024-10-09 16:01 -0400
SubjectVMS/NT memory management (was: Byte ordering)
Message-ID<jwv5xq16ock.fsf-monnier+comp.arch@gnu.org>
In reply to#109592
> In the VMS/WinNT way, each memory section is defined as either shared
> or private when created and cannot be changed. This allows optimizations
> in page table and page file handling.

Interesting.  Do you happen to have a pointer for further reading
about it?

> *nix needs to maintain various data structures to support forking
> memory just in case it happens.

I can't imagine what those datastructures would be (which might be just
another way to say that I was brought up on POSIX and can't imagine the
world differently).


        Stefan

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#109610 — Re: VMS/NT memory management (was: Byte ordering)

Fromscott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
Date2024-10-09 23:16 +0000
SubjectRe: VMS/NT memory management (was: Byte ordering)
Message-ID<m9ENO.34382$5837.10764@fx35.iad>
In reply to#109603
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> In the VMS/WinNT way, each memory section is defined as either shared
>> or private when created and cannot be changed. This allows optimizations
>> in page table and page file handling.
>
>Interesting.  Do you happen to have a pointer for further reading
>about it?
>
>> *nix needs to maintain various data structures to support forking
>> memory just in case it happens.
>
>I can't imagine what those datastructures would be (which might be just
>another way to say that I was brought up on POSIX and can't imagine the
>world differently).
>

http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/vax/vms/training/EY-8264E-DP_VMS_Internals_and_Data_Structures_4.4_1988.pdf

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