begin quoting Gus Wirth as of Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 09:39:55AM -0700: > Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote: > >All the AMD and Intel x86-64 CPUS will happily run either 32-bit or > >64-bit code. > > They also happily run 16-bit code, aka DOS. Backward compatibility has > been remarkably preserved across the entire x86 line.
It's one of the only redeeming features of the x86 line. :) -- Not bad, for a 4-bit calculator chip. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
