13 Nov
2003
13 Nov
'03
7:37 a.m.
being an engineer that worked in assembly language on many micros
before and after the 8086, the segmented architecture was not
that hard to handle and actualy had many side benefits such as
code size and more efficient use of the bus bandwidth. The pdp11
may have been better overall, but there is no comparison on terms
of price, availability, and being able to get the job done for
the millions of PC users.
best regards, Steve Thatcher
--- Original Message ---
From: "Eric Smith" <eric(a)brouhaha.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Date: 11/13/03 3:24:07 PM
"Hans Franke" <hans.franke(a)mch20.sbs.de> wrote:
to me it's
the way the memory is handled
that makes the 8086 the great CPU it is
What, the 64K segments that alias on paragraph boundaries?
Yecch! What a kludge! The PDP-11 had better memory management
for a 64KB address space at least seven years earlier.