2 Aug
2008
2 Aug
'08
12:21 p.m.
You are welcome to pick whatever kind of system that
you like.
Whether or not it is "brain-damaged" is an issue of whether it
performs as intended,
This is not how I have learned to use "brain-damaged". A cretinous
design, implemented perfectly, is still cretinous.
Whether a segmented architecture such as the 8086's *is* brain-damaged
is a separate issue; as you point out, this depends on the intended
use. (For general-purpose computing, I am inclined to say it is, but
that's orthogonal to my principal point here.)
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