Re: Apple and the Holy War

[Phoenyx <quazar@dcnet2000.com>]

> In article <390F36FB.C0AAE60C@dcnet2000.com>,
> Why should this "other hardware" need to be concerned with whether
> the CPU is in protected mode or in real mode when this hardware is
> accessed?  If the hardware had some on-board firmware this is of
> course an issue (for the firmware), but the hardware itself need not
> concern itself with this.

With the newer motherboards this is not noticeable. Take for instance, the
serial and parallel ports or even the hard disks. Newer versions of this
hardware mask this inefficiency but it does exist. In the case of the HD
the system boots in the older 'standard' mode and must access the disk
for boot information. Only later does it use a 32 bit driver. As you have
mentioned in other messages, the faster cpu's hide such inefficiencies.

However, we are severely getting off the subject of Apple II's.

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