Re: Identifying CPU and current OS
On Monday 29 September 2025 01:21:08 pm Felix Miata wrote:
> mick.crane composed on 2025-09-29 18:07 (UTC+0100):
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> > I never really knew what this meant but liked the sound of it.
> >
> > "32 bit extensions and a graphical shell
Windoze 95
> > [on top of] a 16 bit patch
msdos
> > to an 8 bit operating system
cp/m?
> > originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor,
Probably intel 4004?
> > written by a 2 bit company,
m$
> > that can't stand 1 bit of competition."
>
> This was a description of Windows 95 and its legacy going back to Bill Gates and
> Paul Allen making their deal with IBM for an operating system for its personal
> computer.
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