17 Nov
2024
17 Nov
'24
2:01 a.m.
Was just me or did everyone think 32K words was all a
single process
needed in the 70's?
Start with 4K and use paging to give you 32K 12 bit words. Welcome to
the PDP-8 world!!!
Wow you could be running in one 4K field and have your data in another
4K field. Amazing!!!!!
And all core memory too.
On 11/16/2024 7:14 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
On 2024-11-16 2:43 p.m., Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
Think of how much better the state of the
microprocessor would be IBM
had chosen the 68000 Linear Architecture rather than the 8086
Segment:Offset with separate I/O instructions and only 1 interrupt
architecture.
I don't mean to start a huge architecture argument so please don't
flame me.
Now what was that joke again about hell being run by PC's and Heaven
by Macs
So if you get flames don't blame the PC.
Was just me or did everyone think 32K words was all a single process
needed in the 70's?
On 11/16/2024 11:37 AM, Murray McCullough via
cctalk wrote:
To my knowledge Intel announced the C8086
processor in Nov. 1978. This
processor set the stage for the current technological age. It
continues to
adapt and its future seems bright!
Happy computing,
Murray 🙂