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Subject: [OM] Re: Old computers - Geeks and nerds
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:25:57 -0400

Leandro DUTRA wrote:
> 2008/3/23, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>  On a 286, protected mode and real mode are incompatible.
> […]
>> It's the reason that Bill Gates was quoted as saying the
>>  286 was a "brain dead" processor.
> 
> Bear in mind he was trying to protect his proprietary lock-in, which
> revolved around running real mode applications.  Had he stuck to the
> original open-systems plan around Xenix, the 80286 would have been a
> perfectly good processor.

I don't know what you are talking about here.  I've been talking about 
OS/2 which was developed by IBM and not by Bill Gates to protect "his 
proprietary lock-in".

> 
> 
>> Fortunately, my boss had some serious sessions
>>  with Intel early in the 386 development cycle so the 386 was better than
>>  it might have been.
> 
> Now you got me curious, who was your boss?
>
His name was Dennis Gibbs.  He was an IBM hardware development manager 
moved to manage a group charged with OS/2 system software and hardware 
compatibility testing sometime before I got to the group in 1985.  After 
the first couple of years of OS/2 development he left IBM and went to 
Apple.  I have no idea what happened to him after that.  He had a 
hardware liaison responsibility between IBM and Intel and tried very 
hard to influence their design decisions to ease IBM software 
development.  Sometimes successful, sometimes not.

Chuck Norcutt

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