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To: Scumbria who wrote (40331)	10/29/1998 10:01:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) of 1573376

Scumbria - Re: "The entire x86 instruction set was a stroke of far-sighted genius as well. " Other than small embedded controllers, x86 CPUs are the highest selling in history - by a long shot. I guess the instruction set was just fine. Lsst I heard, nobody ever came up with an algorithm that couldn't work on x86 instructions. By the way, Scumbria - Intel had nothing to do with the 640K limit on the first IBM machines. That was IBM's DESIGN DECISION- they chose to use the memory above 640K for the graphics adapters and BIOS. I suppose you think UNIX was a kludge as well - since it was written as a 16 bit OS to begin with. Paul

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