FAST?
Andy Heffernan
ahh at glyph.UUCP
Wed Jan 9 12:03:05 AEST 1991
In article <37648 at cup.portal.com> thad at cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) flames:
[ quoting from Dave Haynie: ]
> The generic objections to the Intel architecture, however, have
> absolutely nothing to do with I/O mapping. They have to do with
> segmentation. Segmentation is one of the more truely evil concepts in
> the microprocessor industry. Again, this was something Intel adpoted
> to make the transition from 8080 to 8088 less painful. It worked to
The story I got, I think from Prof. Gimpel (ya'know, the Gimpel-Lint guy)
back when he was a professor for a living (like two years), was that
a key reason for the introduction of segmenting was the goal to fit
the whole mess into a 40-pin package.
Apocryphal? Maybe.
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