Re: Concerns about AMD64 port

[Cameron Patrick <cameron@patrick.wattle.id.au>]

Tollef Fog Heen wrote:

| Windows 95 was 32 bit, though it could still run 16 bit apps, iirc.
| Also, note that some of the biggest changes when switching from 16 to
| 32 bit mode on the x86 chips were such items as protected mode, which
| is needed if you want to do anything serious. ;)

Yeah.  Though there's been a 16-bit protected mode ever since the 286
though...  I'm not sure if anything ever used it.  (Perhaps earlier
Windows 2.x/3.x's might have?)

Cameron.