13 Nov
2003
13 Nov
'03
6:24 a.m.
"Hans Franke" <Hans.Franke(a)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.