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

From: Fred N. van Kempen <waltje_at_pdp11.nl>
Date: Fri Nov 14 08:05:14 2003

I wrote:

> Indeed... Minix was a pretty good example of how we used and
> abused that to no end, in a somewhat PDP-11 style in the sense
> that we didnt (by default ;-) provide the process with a method
> to claim more of those segments, so the process space was the
> usual 16-bit deal.

Add: since the machines had 20-bit addressing, we segments were
actually 4 bits wide, so you could do 16x64K max.

--f
Received on Fri Nov 14 2003 - 08:05:14 GMT