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Re: Intel architecture (Was: Java vs C++)

From	Sulfide Eater <zaxx1108@example.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer, comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject	Re: Intel architecture (Was: Java vs C++)
Date	2011-02-09 00:23 -0500
Organization	Ain't got none sorry
Message-ID	<iit8db$m1a$1@speranza.aioe.org> (permalink)
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On 09/02/2011 12:15 AM, Lew wrote:
> Esmond Pitt wrote:
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> Esmond Pitt wrote:
>>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> Nobody seriously used that stuff, because none of it was of any use.
>>> The only OS designed to try to make use of it, OS/2, flopped.
>> For that reason?
>
> That quote is out of context, but if "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" was saying
> that use of clever Intel tricks like hardware multitasking and privilege
> rings were used only by OS/2 (is that what he said? I missed his post.),
> the other OSes you cite aren't the only ones, either. QNX, for example,
> was doing that on the '286, and they're still very much in business, too.

QNX? That's even more obscure than OS/2 is!

Fact is, nothing with non-micoscopic market share used those features of 
the 80286.

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Re: Intel architecture (Was: Java vs C++) Sulfide Eater <zaxx1108@example.com> - 2011-02-09 00:23 -0500
  Re: Intel architecture (Was: Java vs C++) Sulfide Eater <zaxx1108@example.com> - 2011-02-09 16:03 -0500
    Re: Intel architecture (Was: Java vs C++) "tholen@antispam.ham" <tholen@ifa.hawaii.edu> - 2011-02-10 06:29 -0800
      Re: Intel architecture (Was: Java vs C++) Heike Svensson <hsvensson.1093x1_q@hotmail.nospam.com.please> - 2011-02-10 09:35 -0500
        Re: Intel architecture (Was: Java vs C++) "tholen@antispam.ham" <tholen@ifa.hawaii.edu> - 2011-02-10 17:21 -0800
    Re: Intel architecture (Was: Java vs C++) Esmond Pitt <esmond.pitt@bigpond.com> - 2011-02-10 21:58 +1100
      Re: Intel architecture (Was: Java vs C++) "tholen@antispam.ham" <tholen@ifa.hawaii.edu> - 2011-02-10 17:23 -0800
        Re: Intel architecture (Was: Java vs C++) Sulfide Eater <zaxx1108@example.com> - 2011-02-12 05:40 -0500
      Re: Intel architecture (Was: Java vs C++) "tholen@antispam.ham" <tholen@ifa.hawaii.edu> - 2011-02-10 06:28 -0800
        Re: Intel architecture (Was: Java vs C++) Sulfide Eater <zaxx1108@example.com> - 2011-02-10 09:32 -0500
      Re: Intel architecture (Was: Java vs C++) Heike Svensson <hsvensson.1093x1_q@hotmail.nospam.com.please> - 2011-02-13 11:04 -0500
      Re: Intel architecture (Was: Java vs C++) Sulfide Eater <zaxx1108@example.com> - 2011-02-10 07:00 -0500
  Re: Troll warning Sulfide Eater <zaxx1108@example.com> - 2011-02-09 17:02 -0500
  Re: Intel architecture (Was: Java vs C++) "tholen@antispam.ham" <tholen@ifa.hawaii.edu> - 2011-02-09 07:43 -0800
  Re: Troll warning Sulfide Eater <zaxx1108@example.com> - 2011-02-09 16:29 -0500
    Re: Troll warning "tholen@antispam.ham" <tholen@ifa.hawaii.edu> - 2011-02-09 13:52 -0800
  Re: Troll warning Nigel Wade <nmw-news@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2011-02-09 13:12 +0000
    Re: Troll warning Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-02-09 08:22 -0500
  Re: Intel architecture (Was: Java vs C++) Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-02-09 07:46 -0500

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