Subj : Re: RP2350 and Pico 2 - things missing
To   : Ahem A Rivet's Shot
From : Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Date : Mon Aug 26 2024 02:43:11

On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 09:13:56 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 07:31:32 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence D'Oliveiro
> <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 11:12:41 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>>
>> > It was *horrible*, the 80386 was a breath of fresh air.
>>
>> Sure it was. Except it was only giving the Intel market what the users
>> of other CPUs (Motorola, NatSemi) had been enjoying for years.
>
> Sure there's always plenty of fresh air in the fields but this was
> in the sewer.

And then it took the Windows/DOS world about another decade to transition
to properly 32-bit APIs.

And there it seems to have got stuck: even on today’s 64-bit machines,
Windows programs still use “Win32”.

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