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From: Brett <ggtgp@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Byte ordering (was: Whether something is RISC or not)
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2024 17:52:09 -0000 (UTC)
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Oct 2024 17:30:07 GMT, Anton Ertl wrote:
> 
>> The fact that the 386SX only appeared in 1988 also did not help.
> 
> As a software guy, I liked the idea of the 386SX, and encouraged friends/
> colleagues to choose it over a 286.
> 
> Of course, they wanted to compare price/performance, but I saw things in 
> terms of future software compatibility, and the sooner the move away from 
> braindead x86 segmentation towards a nice, flat, expansive, linear address 
> space, the better for everybody.
> 
> Sometimes I felt like a voice crying in the wilderness ...


Didn’t it take a decade for the 386 to get a 32 bit OS, by which time the
early machines were long since in the garbage bin, making the extra cost a
waste.

The AMD 286 was faster and cheaper, better lifetime value for the money.

You were a voice crying in the wilderness, because you were wrong. ;)