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

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From: David Corn
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 12:00
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pvdh@motship.xs4all.nl (Paul van der Heu) wrote:


>AmigaOS has been 32bit since 1985

I'm aware Dave H. has said that, but can you run your 68040 in
Workbench 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, or 1.3 with the copyback cache on?  

No?  

How do you define 32-bit?  Do you define it as using 32-bit
instructions?  As being able to run 32-bit compiled programs
especially for the 020 and above?  
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From: dcorn@metronet.com (David Corn)
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Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 12:00:51 GMT
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