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

From: Captain Napalm <spc_at_armigeron.com>
Date: Fri Sep 18 09:58:23 1998

It was thus said that the Great Doug Yowza once stated:
>
> True, the architecture is quite "rich", but it's trivial to make the
> address space look flat, and that's what most PC operating systems do
> today. Segments could have been a very powerful feature if Intel had just
> given us more of them. Imagine having every data object in its own
> segment which hardware access protection and boundary checking. This
> would have been a huge boon to software reliability, but they only gave us
> 4096 of them!

  Intel did. It's the 432. Neat architecture. Slow architecture.

  -spc (Early 80s I think ... )
Received on Fri Sep 18 1998 - 09:58:23 BST