"Ian Betts" <igb123@talktalk.net> wrote ...
> The good old days reviewed. That should help some folk understand a little
> more.

Or for that matter, the dangerous leap from 8-bit CP/M to 16-bit MS-DOS!

I almost mentioned the radical transition from 16-bit PDP-11 and RSX, to
32-bit VAX and VMS.

But then I thought: this might not be an enlightening analogy, for many
folks ... :-)

For completeness, I should also say the ILLIAC IV was a 64 bit machine, back
in 1975!!! 64-bit computing is not new.

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Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au