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Linux 5.0 is out except it's really 4.21 because Linus 'ran out of fingers and toes' to count on

Paul Crawford Silver badge

DOS made no use of 386 as far as I know (though some DOS programs might have), but Windows 95 did have an odd mix of the 16-bit 286 code and 32-bit 386 code (a situation that was continued through to ME, of which the less said the better).

The NT series was 32-bit from the very start.

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