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From: mds@wang.UUCP (Marc San Soucie)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Memory utilization & inter-process contention
Summary: Banishment Of Segments To The Abyss
Message-ID: <532@wang.UUCP>
Date: 7 Sep 89 16:04:44 GMT
References: <1114@aber-cs.UUCP> <278@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> <2089@uceng.UC.EDU>
Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA
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In article <2089@uceng.UC.EDU>, dmocsny@uceng.UC.EDU (daniel mocsny) writes:

> Therefore,
> for the computer industry to deliver the most value to the customer
> (and to consequently share in that value) it must take whatever steps
> are necessary to stop destroying the work of programmers.
> 
> Dan Mocsny
> dmocsny@uceng.uc.edu

For instance, by eliminating once and for all the scourge of 64K segmented
memory from the computer industry. That this might drive the minions of
Intel and Microsoft to seek more productive lines of work causes me to
shed no more tears than I shed for the passing of the Z80.

The byte gods alone know how much programmer productivity has been sent down
the shiny chute because of the unnatural, irrational, inconceivably obscure
demands of MS/DOS and the 80x86, keepers of the foul flame of Medium Model
and its unwelcome cousins Huge and Outrageous.

Not that UNIX is likely to save the world either.

The planet needs, deserves, something more enlightened than the carp floating
about these days. But who can afford to develop something new in these times
of economic shortsightedness?

    Marc San Soucie
    Massachusetts
    mds@wang.wang.com (opinions those of the author and maybe his mother)