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From: andrel
Date: 31 Dec 2008 06:00:11
Message: <495B511B.3080109@hotmail.com>
On 31-Dec-08 11:50, Warp wrote:
> andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>> I didn't know even sin and cos are now hardware supported, interesting.
> 
>   "Now"? In which cave are you living?-)
> 
>   When was the 80387 introduced? According to wikipedia, 1987. That's like
> 21 years ago...
> 
I invited you to do the math ;) That 1987 was more or less the last time 
I wrote some machine code and that was not for a 386/7 system. As far as 
I am concerned the hardware and software developers for the PC 
compatibles did not really invite programming close to the hardware.


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