Re: The Itty Bitty Monster in trouble re: PC's?

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From: rwwetmore
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1987 16:26

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In article <989@chinet.UUCP> ward@chinet.UUCP (Ward Christensen-) writes:
>Regarding article about IBM feeling a 386 may impact the S/36, ...
> ... the 9370 - a S/370 architecture  ...
> ... these boxes will continue to have better communications and larger
>disks (with no 32MB limitations, ;-) than the PC.
>
  I thought the 32Mb disk limitation was a DOS limitation built into
the IBM bios. The Unix implementations I know of don't have this, and
there are numerous bios enhancements such as by Golden Bow and On-Track
which circumvent the limitations for DOS.
  Now that reasonable operating systems exist, and clones have surpassed
the 6 MHz IBM limitations, PC-AT's and 286 XT's are showing their true
power. IBM should be concerned about these non-proprietary systems.

Ross W. Wetmore			| rwwetmore@water.NetNorth
University of Waterloo		| rwwetmore@watmath.waterloo.edu
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1	| {clyde, ihnp4, ubc-vision, utcsri}
(519) 885-1211 ext 3491		|   !watmath!rwwetmore

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Subject: Re: The Itty Bitty Monster in trouble re: PC's?
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Date: Thu, 8-Jan-87 11:26:33 EST
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