Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 02/22/07 10:43, John Hasler wrote:
Mike McCarty writes:
8086 is 16 bit bus, 16 bit registers
But with a bizarre segmentation scheme and a 20 bit address bus able to
address 1MB.
But back in the day, with the limited silicon budget, segmentation
is a great way for a 16 bit system (that wants to maintain upward
compatibility with the 8080/8085) to address more than 64KB.
Note that this was a certain type of pseudo asm source compatibility,
not object compatibility.
The 68K was/is still a much better architecture.
Oh, please, not that flame war again.
Mike
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