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

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From	Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
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Subject	Re: Intel architecture (Was: Java vs C++)
Date	Wed, 09 Feb 2011 07:46:06 -0500
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Lew wrote:
>> 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.

Sulfide Eater wrote:
> QNX? That's even more obscure than OS/2 is!

How is still in business and thriving more obscure than historic only and no 
longer used?

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

That was essentially what I said to start off this sub-thread: "Only a couple 
of OSes really used that stuff back then."  Glad to see agreement in this 
often contentious newsgroup.

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Lew
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