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Re: rtVAX300 .. need help..



On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, John Wilson wrote:

From: Roger Ivie <rivie%ridgenet.net@localhost>
People coming from a PC background don't understand how unusual the PC
is in having *absolutely* *every* *thing* nailed down. It is not
normally the case that a wide range of hardware has the same registers
in the same places. It only happened in the PC because PC-DOS was so
extraordinarily weak.

All true, but I've always seen that as one of the PC's few superpowers.

Only a superpower of evil, Darth.
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roger ivie
rivie%ridgenet.net@localhost


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