GUIs 'forced' on people (was Re: Here's something to consider.)

From: Kevin McQuiggin <mcquiggi_at_sfu.ca>
Date: Fri Sep 18 11:18:05 1998

At 10:54 AM 18/09/98 -0500, you wrote:
>The 386 was important, but not because of performance. Virtual memory,
>flat 32-bit address space, and V86 mode were all essential to the success

Intel x86 series have anything _but_ a flat 32 bit address space! The flat
memory model is one of the positive features of the 68K series. I taught a
computer architecture course a couple of summers ago and one of the most
challenging parts of the course was explaining the addressing schemes used
on the 386 and above.

Kevin


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