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>I would enthusiastically concur with that. And what about my AT - it
>can use protected mode and could address up to 20Mb if I had it. Why
>does everyone only support 386's these days?
>
I wholly agree but I think it is because the '286 can only address that 
memory as segmented, whereas the 386+ can make it flat (and slow).

Part of the job of a HLL compiler writer is in my opinion to do the hard bits 
which on the Intel means making the 64k segmentation go away. They in fact 
pass the buck. 

Anything I write for public consumption will always run on an 8088. Move on 
to really major software works and I think you will find that there comes a 
time when there is little choice but the draw a line and say big machines 
only. This is ok if the software is expensive.

Were MicroSoft wrong in making Windows 3, 286 or greater? I guess that W 4 
will be 486 or greater 8-)

  TC. 
    E-mail: tchannon@black.demon.co.uk or tchannon@cix.compulink.co.uk