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On 2 Jul 1996, Cihangir Akyol wrote:

> In the anticipation that eventually most software will
> be written for 32 bit operating systems (NT), I have decided
> to pay the extra few hundred dollars and go for a Pentium Pro,
> instead of the Pentium.
> 
> Having made this decision however, the prospect of everyone
> not moving to the 32 bit operating system is still nagging me.


32bit is now the defacto standard.

The major vendors have already started 64bit versions of their s.w

 
> Therefore, I would like to know if anyone has any hard data
> (not feelings or rumors) about the performance of Pentium
> Pro running 16 bit applications comparing them to the Pentium.


Same if not slower. BYTE in Feb/March96(?) had a series of comparisons
on both 16/32 bit OSs. (their web site has search to pull up articles by
keywords)

> 
> Thank you.
> 
> C. M. Akyol (cakyol@cisco.com)
> 

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