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Article #1780Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
From: Al Varney
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 21:46
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 21:46
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In article <tgooding-2408951349080001@helser196.res.iastate.edu>, Tom Gooding <tgooding@iastate.edu> wrote: >In article <41i9d6$er@thetics.europa.com>, jdm@atheria.europa.com (Jesse) wrote: >> >Mac OS has been 32 bit clean since 5 years ago... >> Only five? The Amiga OS has been 32-bit clean for twice that long. > >MacOS has been 32 bit clean longer than that. System 7 is going on 5 >years, perhaps that was what the poster was thinking about. > >BTW - The original Amiga didn't care about the upper 8 bits. And not all >the programs were 32 bit clean (since the processor stripped the top 8 >bits) The Amiga OS in 1985 was 32-bit clean. Some applications, notably the AmigaBasic written by MICROSOFT, were not. Al Varney
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