"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
>
> I wuz talking to a college kid the other day, mentioned I knew folks who
> ran DOS on their pIIIs
> He said "run an 8bit system on a 64bit machine? Why? That's nuts!"
> I thought about it, couldn't explain it.
> Is dos still only 8bit, or can you get versions/software that increases
> it? Would you want to? Can it therefor take advantage of a 64 bit
> machine, or is that machine not being used to it's full potential?
> Am I completely off track here?
PIII is 32 bits. DOS is 16b, although there are many tricks to use 32.
call it 16+8 Windows has some more 32b parts, but still uses a lot 16b.
call it 32-8. Linux is fully 32b. Linux is also capable of running full
64b but this requires 64b hardware (Alpha, UltraSPARC, _no_ Intel yet).
Don't know about NT, I think its fully 32b on Intel and 64 on Alpha,
just like Linux.
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