26 Apr
2008
26 Apr
'08
1:53 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
The Intel mesifeature was making the 8088 and 8086
start at a location
near the top of the memory map after a reset as as attempt to get round
this 'problem' not realising that _any_ fixed reset location would have
essentially the same effect.
And to make the 80286 (and later) processors start at the same location
as the 8085, and thus somewhere in the middle of their much larger
address space was plain insane.
And yet people continue to buy this garbage. Why, I'll never understand.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL