The day before the MS-DOS 5.0 roll-out, reports Microbytes Daily, Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates spoke to the Boston Computer Society, and sounded less than positive over the Advanced Computing Environment initiative that aims to create a new PC-like standard for RISC-based systems. Most applications will still run on Intel chips, and the Intel architecture will continue to get faster without requiring any major changes to software, he was quoted as saying. We’ve got our architecture set – 32 bits is enough: we won’t need to build new operating systems for 64-bit pointers. At the same time, people want to run our applications on workstation-type machines. Our New Technology – NT – kernel lets us do that. It helps promote competition in the marketplace.
