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To: kapkan4u who wrote (69035)	1/26/2002 3:05:47 AM
From: Petz	Read Replies (4) of 275872

It took over 15 years for i386 to get to 32 bits. Looks like Microsoft gets to play the kingmaker But back then there wasn't an alternative before Windows 95 that ran 32 bit code. Linux is a real threat to Microsoft, especially for server applications, which truthfully are 90% of the applications that really need 64 bits. AMD can still say truthfully that the Hammer processes everything internally in 64 bit chunks, i.e., it does 64 bit processing, even under Windows 98. EDIT - help me recall this. Windows 386 and Windows 3.1 really only used the "virtual 8086" mode of the 386/486/Pentium. Correct? IBM's OS/2 beat Windows 95 to market and had a true 32 bit API, but I don't think it ever had nearly as many applications written for it as Linux does now. Petz

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