18 Sep
1998
18 Sep
'98
2:58 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great Doug Yowza once stated:
True, the architecture is quite "rich", but it's trivial to make the
address space look flat, and that's what most PC operating systems do
today. Segments could have been a very powerful feature if Intel had just
given us more of them. Imagine having every data object in its own
segment which hardware access protection and boundary checking. This
would have been a huge boon to software reliability, but they only gave us
4096 of them!
Intel did. It's the 432. Neat architecture. Slow architecture.
-spc (Early 80s I think ... )