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Posted by Bewildered Tony who has a lackey 4 tecchie stuff on Tue Nov 27, 2001 09:30:12 AM
In reply top Clear as mud to me ! posted by MGM on Tue Nov 27, 2001 08:49:25 AM
: : Hi Christer,
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: : Yes there're both 32 bit systems. The difference is thei
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: : design. If you think of it as a family tree then 95, 98,
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: : e share one branch and NT 4, 2000, and XP another. Its m
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: : e to do with the internal workings and design. The NT br
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: : ch has generally been more stable due to design. MS prov
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: : es more protection between the application and the opera
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: : ng system. This makes it alot harder for an application
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: : crash and take out the whole system (though it is still
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: : ossible). I had a chat with a guy from Intel who as part
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: : f the original 80386 design team (some years ago!!) and
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: : said Intel were annoyed MS didn't use all the features
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: : the chip which would provide a more stable OS. It was t
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: : e to market and backward MS-DOS compatiblity issues agai
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: : This has always dogged the 95 branch. NT address this t
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: : ough proper emulation which at the beginng was crap but
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: : th 2000 and XP looks pretty good.
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: : Hope its a little clearer...
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: : Graham P.
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