On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 20:48 -0700, Karl Hegbloom wrote: > On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 08:45 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Back when segments were 16 bits wide, yes it was a pain. I'm old > > enough to have done assembly programming on the 8088. (Now that I > > have the wisdom of time, I understand why Intel did what they did, > > even though the 68K was much cleaner.) > > ? Well, so why did they do it that way? They? Motorola or Intel? > Let me guess... it's just so that you can get more than 16 bits of > address space for one program? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B Remember when environmental doom-and-gloomers said that it would take 10 years to put out the 750 post-GW1 oil fires? Yet they were all out in 6 months. Remember when environmental doom-and-gloomers said in ~1975 that the oil would run out in 50 years?
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