5th February 2017, 9:12 AM
What I'm getting at is MS didn't lock out 16 bit programs. That wasn't MS's decision, it was Intel's.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)