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. :)

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Not bad, for a 4-bit calculator chip.
Stewart Stremler


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