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re: For the Nitpickers: Enhanced-mode Windows 3.0 didn't exactly run a copy...
@Klimax No, the SX/DX distinction of lacking FP support was with the 486 only. With the 386, it instead referred to the external bus. The 386SX and 386DX both used 32bit registers and 32bit...
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Thank you for your time! We're glad you chose to share some of it with us.
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re: For the Nitpickers: Enhanced-mode Windows 3.0 didn't exactly run a copy...
I find your introduction rant very surprising. People mostly ask you about these things because you're a great source of information and your articles are interesting. But that doesn't mean you are...
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@Matt: Sleep(0) is semantically different from NOP on Windows.msdn.microsoft.com/.../ms686298.aspx
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@Anonymous Coward:I refer the honourable gentlemen to blogs.msdn.com/.../the+social+skills+of+a+thermonuclear+device
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Well I suppose threatening one person with the Nitpicker's Corner is effectively threatening all of us! Â But that's besides the point since no threat had been made.
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I'll again just simply state that I enjoy these kinds of articles. For whatever that's worth.Thanks Raymond.
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Neil (SM): the threat was made in both articles as "Don't make me bring back the Nitpicker's Corner".I suspect the ambiguity in "threatening... for asking" (it doesn't necessarily imply someone *has*...
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re: The Essential Guide To Dim Sum
Here, in Australia, we call it Yum Cha. Most of the names of the dishes are the same, except a certain dish is called a dim sim - the SIU MAI.Ah, wikipedia to the rescue....
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Ah, perception bias. Â I can definitely sympathize.
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Thanks for spending the time researching this article. This kind of OS archeology is why I love this blog.
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@Jerome, @John Doe: Of course, for commands that apply only to a *simple* and *reduced* set (for example, JPEG images), it's better to just show it when needed. I was talking about *complex* or...
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Mr. Chen,I would also like to thank you for explaining this issue. Â And thank you very much for maintaining this blog. Â You are, and always will be, my programming god.JamesNT
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re: For the Nitpickers: Enhanced-mode Windows 3.0 didn't exactly run a copy...
Win-OS/2 and NTVDM also ran Win3.x as a DPMI client.
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"That's six hours I could've spent doing something enjoyable." Raymond - I'd find 6 hours looking at and writing about Windows 3.0 source code pretty cool myself. But when it comes to Windows source...
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I seem to remember reading that Windows 3.1 Standard Mode ran slightly differently on a '386 than Windows 3.0 did but my recollection of how 3.1 was claimed to do it matches what Raymond says for 3.0...
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@Steven DonThe 386SX had another limitation - address space was limited to 16MB just like a 286, instead of 4GB, as far as I remember at least.
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@mmx: But that, I thought, was only external address space. The MMU supported 32-bit addresses, just like it did in the 386DX.
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Raymond is being full-blown tsundere here. "It's not like I made this post for you. O-of course I spent six hours making it, but that's just because you complained! I don't l-like you or anything, I...
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