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[Dave McGuire]

On February 25, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> > > >   Do you have some references to back this up?  I remember when the
> > > > 80386 was announced, and I don't recall any mention of anything of the
> > > > sort.
> > > 
> > > I recall reading an old Intel propanda sheet stating it was designed
> > > specifically for Unix. It may have been some other i80x86, but I'm
> > > pretty sure it was the i386DX.
> > 
> >   I suspect that was the propaganda sheet that they printed up for the
> > Unix market.  The one they printed for the desktop PC market likely
> > said it was "designed specifically for MS-DOS", and the one they
> > printed for the high-end embedded systems market probably said it was
> > designed specifically for the high-end embedded systems market.
> 
> What about the vm86 stuff they added that was not in the earlier chips?

  This has *nothing* to do with anything Unix-related, and isn't
useful as such as far as I'm aware.

> What about the increase in memory addressing to 32bits / 4GB
> addressable?  The addition of rudimentary paging support?  The ability
> to have privilege levels?

  What about it?  They could have had a VMS port in mind.  These
things aren't Unix-specific, they're real-operating-system-specific.

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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