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Re: Pentium Or Pentium Pro

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From: Terry Thiel
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 00:00
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In article <01bb6976.d43dd4e0$573bd4cc@hobbes->, "Tom N."
<tnel@primenet.com> wrote:

> The latter half of this statement is false, NT is a completely 32bit OS
> and Win95 has few 16 bit calls
> 
> TN
> 
> > tthiel@msilink.com (Terry Thiel) wrote in article
> <tthiel-0307962246070001@sgtdial04.shout.net>...
> > Thats an interesting statement considering only a few companies
> (Digital,
> > Sun..) even have a 64 bit processor and Intels is still on the drawing
> > board.  Not to mention how long it took Windoze to go 32 bit.  Windows
> 95
> > is a long way from 32 bitness and NT also has alot of 16 bit code.  Of
> > course the Mac has been 32 bit for years.....

You would be wrong.  The NTFS filesystem is 16 bit code and there are
other protions of NT that are still 16 bit.  Get yur facts straight before
you post them as such.
-Terry
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From: tthiel@msilink.com (Terry Thiel)
Subject: Re: Pentium Or Pentium Pro
Date: 1996/07/05
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