8086 (was Re: more talking to the press.)

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Thu Nov 13 14:24:07 2003

"Hans Franke" <Hans.Franke_at_mch20.sbs.de> wrote:
> to me it's the way the memory is handled
> that makes the 8086 the great CPU it is

What, the 64K segments that alias on paragraph boundaries?
Yecch! What a kludge! The PDP-11 had better memory management
for a 64KB address space at least seven years earlier.
Received on Thu Nov 13 2003 - 14:24:07 GMT