Path: csiph.com!eeepc.pasdenom.info!news.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.albasani.net!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Intel architecture (Was: Java vs C++) Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 07:46:06 -0500 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 32 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net KubhQN2AffLRImfuenUe9xxk1EuaSaFGBUReRss1XKhMIfbsGedc/+c5FNsLO/JwK9pbAGuTGMHKG0/yATBkpA== NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 12:45:38 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:CJ6+fD4sf+Y1XlFm93v/fMfd+gQ= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101208 Thunderbird/3.1.7 Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="gG9osbbKQ2zaHPguLEY5SvVeayqZ8DymoHTuvaU5+Oc+hIHVJT4zrqX7pBAFkF9+NWL2fMqD5gYsx3zdmxkX3gR66xOnkj2/djve6TMs3VaY6ymZDHL9scBp29IO0s1q"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:25917 comp.os.os2.advocacy:16366 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. -- Lew Ceci n'est pas une fenêtre. .___________. |###] | [###| |##/ | *\##| |#/ * | \#| |#----|----#| || | * || |o * | o| |_____|_____| |===========|