Re: What is the name of the platform we work on? -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: What is the name of the platform we work on?
From: "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:18:31 -0700
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And yet the Macintosh has gone through one more major architecture change than we have (68xxx --> Power --> Intel), and it's still a Macintosh.

And today's WinDoze barely even has a family resemblance to the WinDoze 286 and WinDoze 386 that people usually only bought in order to get himem.sys, and yet it's still called WinDoze.

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JHHL

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