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well.. i'd agree with you, but that's like saying that *BSD and Linux
arn't unix. x86 is a platform, the original IBM PC was a platform, it's
just really old.. and for PC's to keep that kind of backwards
compatability is kinda silly, but we're stuck with it
Thank You,
Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net)
"Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends."
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Phil Mendelsohn wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2001, Mike Hicks wrote:
>
> > I've been looking to dump the Intel architecture for a while.. As anyone
> > who has looked at it will tell you, it's gotten pretty crufty. Since I
> > run Linux and only Linux, this isn't terribly hard to do, either.
>
> The way I hear it, from those who know better than I, the Alpha *is* a
> real architecture, the x86 family isn't; it's a kludge to keep backward
> compatibility with the 8086.
>
> --
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