Path: csiph.com!eeepc.pasdenom.info!news.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Sulfide Eater Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Intel architecture (Was: Java vs C++) Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:23:56 -0500 Organization: Ain't got none sorry Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <4d4e7634$0$81475$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <4d4f55ba$0$23758$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4d50b4dc$0$32795$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4d50da6e$0$32794$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4d521cac$0$32796$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 3JKR4A4oyLilmkiVmspCnw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:25491 comp.os.os2.advocacy:16271 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.