6 Aug
2006
6 Aug
'06
4:27 p.m.
On Sunday 06 August 2006 06:50 pm, Ray Arachelian wrote:
A far cleaner approach would be to use 32 bit
registers to begin with.
Then, you're not limited to 16 bit segments, nor do you have to worry
about segments. See the 68000.
Which is exactly why I have one or two of those chips around with the thoughts
of maybe someday playing with them, a thought that I've *never* had with
regard to the x86 parts, which I'll just _use_ as a part of an already-made
system.
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