[rescue] Fry's

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 04:54:03AM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On February 25, Kenneth Dunn 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?

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

./patrick