T. Joseph CARTER wrote:
> You realise of course that as of Windows XP, the above is no longer true.
> Windows XP uses the core of WindowsN'T (as in CouldN'T, WouldN'T, and
> DidN'T), which was more or less 32 bit since its first incarnation with
> the name of "Windows".
Even when it was called VAX/VMS, the OS itself was fully 32 bits. VMS
had a PDP-11 compatibility mode which was 16 bits (the first few
generations of VAXen even had hardware assist for it), and some
utilities ran in PDP-11 mode in VMS version 1. By the time VMS
Version 2 was released (in 1979?), almost all DEC's software was
VAX-native.
As they say in TECo,
>IVMS$$
>-3C3<.A+(D1)I>$$
>.-3,.T$$
WNT
Of course, DEC had a fully 64 bit CPU and OS, the Alpha running
Digital Unix, by 1991 or 1992.
Why do I know all this useless trivia? I wish I could forget it all
and remember TECo better...
--
Bob Miller K<bob>
kbobsoft software consulting
http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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