Brain-dead segmented architecture, 64k per segment limitation code segments, ever hear of code segments? Data segments maybe? Ever actually do any 8086 assembler? You would have liked them. In fact, even the MAC's O/S had them built in as I recall, just not a hardware
1-megabyte memory limitation. The only thing that made it OK, I concede here... But if you actually write code instead of pasting code together, 1MB is plenty of RAM with this
at Thu, 13 Jun 1996 11:30:44 -0800 jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com> may have written... limitation with the 68000. A good programmer was not limited by these. processor. What was brain dead was the fact that IBM in it's infinite wisdom "stole" near half of that for it's poor hardware designs (640k-1MB range). flames > /dev/nul --- Joseph L. (Joe) Moll, Greenville, SC USA mailto:oolid@acqic.org ---