On 10/7/07, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gus Wirth wrote: > > They also happily run 16-bit code, aka DOS. Backward compatibility has > > been remarkably preserved across the entire x86 line. > > At tremendous expense in chip real-estate and power consumption. I > recall Andrew Lentvorski telling us all about it at Denny's one evening. > > -- > Tracy R Reed
Hmm ... I wonder why that would be so? Whay could the older designs not be simply emulated in a layer of software? Andy? BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
