[Eug-lug] Technical wiseassery

[Jamie]

PWN3D!
On Friday 10 June 2005 16:38, Bob Miller wrote:
> T. Joseph CARTER wrote:
> > You realise of course that as of Windows XP, the above is no longer true.
> > Windows XP uses the core of WindowsN'T (as in CouldN'T, WouldN'T, and
> > DidN'T), which was more or less 32 bit since its first incarnation with
> > the name of "Windows".
>
> Even when it was called VAX/VMS, the OS itself was fully 32 bits.  VMS
> had a PDP-11 compatibility mode which was 16 bits (the first few
> generations of VAXen even had hardware assist for it), and some
> utilities ran in PDP-11 mode in VMS version 1.  By the time VMS
> Version 2 was released (in 1979?), almost all DEC's software was
> VAX-native.
>
> As they say in TECo,
>
> 	>IVMS$$
> 	>-3C3<.A+(D1)I>$$
> 	>.-3,.T$$
>
> 	WNT
>
> Of course, DEC had a fully 64 bit CPU and OS, the Alpha running
> Digital Unix, by 1991 or 1992.
>
> Why do I know all this useless trivia?  I wish I could forget it all
> and remember TECo better...