🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: comp.sys.powerpc
Article #140

Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...

#140
From: Kazimir Kylheku
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 01:09
13 lines
1237 bytes
In article <3vh2hc$9dd@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>, d.   lam <dlam@julian.uwo.ca> wrote:
>Have you ever think about why do you need an 32bit OS?  Before making 

* Because good computer companies have offered them for two decades
already.  Others insisted on pushing 640K limits on users right through
the RISC age...

* Because PeeCees capable of running 32-bit operating systems have been
around for nearly a decade already, waiting for university student programmers
to mature and start coding.

* Because this $100 Apollo workstation beside me has a 32-bit operating
system that dates back to 1990 that can blow away Windoze 95.
Technical Details
Message-ID: <3vjurmINNhh8@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca!not-for-mail
References: <3vh2hc$9dd@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca!not-for-mail
From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
Date: 31 Jul 1995 18:09:10 -0700
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <3vjurmINNhh8@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
References: <3vh2hc$9dd@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>
NNTP-Posting-Host: keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca