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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
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Subject: Re: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not)
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2024 18:11:55 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
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Brett <ggtgp@yahoo.com> writes:
>Didn’t it take a decade for the 386 to get a 32 bit OS

386/ix appeared in 1985, exactly 0 years after the 386.  Xenix/386 and
Windows/386 appeared in 1987.

- anton
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