Old MS-DOS & WIN Software

[Jim Leonard]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
> One wonders what the OS landscape would have looked like had MS simply
> bundled a 32-bit flat-mode DPMI server with MS-DOS when the 386 came out.
> Would anyone really have preferred developing for the segmented 16-bit
> model?

Of course not.  But what I really wonder is if IBM had chosen the 68000 instead 
of the 8086.  32-bit right from the start, and more usuable CPU registers than 
just "Larry, Moe, and Curly" as a grizzled friend once put it :-)
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