z8000 segment scheme question

From: SHAUN RIPLEY <vax3900_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sun Jul 25 22:27:07 2004

I picked up one of my computer books today and read
that z8000 uses one 16 bit register to hold the 7 bit
segment number and one register to hold the 16 bit
offset. The strange thing is that the segment number
is hold in position of bit 9-14 other than the bottom
half of the first register. I goggled and found
complaint about this scheme but no one explained why
it was designed so. Could somebody on the list tell me why?


                
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Received on Sun Jul 25 2004 - 22:27:07 BST

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