9 Dec
2005
9 Dec
'05
7:09 p.m.
On 12/8/2005 at 9:49 PM Allison wrote:
However, the 8089 IOP was a piece of cruft and one big pain to debug.
Expensive, short-sighted and brain-dead, but it did have a flat 20-bit
addressing space. The 186 with integrated periopherals and 20 bit DMA
pretty much put the kebosh on it.
Cheers,
Chuck