Re: segmented mem - Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??
On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 16:54:39 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
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> On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Paul Morgan wrote:
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>> IBM did popularize the term "PC", but they sure as heck didn't invent the
>> personal computer. And, because they'd bought the rights to the Intel
>> 8086, and because of the sheer economic power and brand recognition of
>> IBM, we all got stuck with the dreadful Intel segmented memory
>> architecture.
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> my understanding is that segmented mem like the x86 makes it easy
> for context swap and page fault recovery ??
> - 68000 and Z8000 has a harder time to do "recovery"
> but easier to write code and faster for general aps
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> i like pdp-style apps ... everything directly accessible as memory ...
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> c ya
> alvin
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> - google just had a party at the computer museum ..
> - computer museum happen to have all these old toys
> ( pdp-8, cray-1, ... all working ...
> ( paper tape, catridges, punch cards too
Segmented memory addressing is cheaper, don't need as wide an address bus,
and it certainly adds a level of complexity to asm programming, and of
course it's slower. I didn't do any asm programming after the 8086/8088,
but there was no hardware memory management as you suggest until the
80386. The big downside of that is that all memory was available to all
processes; all you had to do was just not play by the OS's rules.
I'm digging back in my memory for this, so please read IIRC for every
statement :)
--
....................paul
"The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected."
(The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972)
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