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

From: ben franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Sat Nov 15 12:40:20 2003

Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:

>
> If I recall, the early Macs did the software equivilent of virtual memory.
> When you allocated memory you got back a pointer to a pointer of memory, and
> you always had to reference through this indirect pointer to access the
> memory, since the Mac (when the OS portion ran) could (and would) move
> memory around.

But did not the EARLY Mac's assume you would never need more than 128K.
TOTAL in the machine! And that is the only size they made!

> -spc (Not fond of the Mac-pseudo virtual memory scheme ... )
>
>
Ben.
Received on Sat Nov 15 2003 - 12:40:20 GMT