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From: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:  Lies, lies, they're telling us lies...
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Date: 28 Nov 89 19:10:00 GMT
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In article <4737@nigel.udel.EDU> acm131@eric.ccs.northeastern.edu (Craig Scott Lennox) writes:
>Since people seem to be posting their favourite lies from computer
>reps, I thought I'd add this one I heard from an IBM demo guy at the
>Northeast Computer Show.  We were discussing the virtues of the
>Motorola 68020 vs. the Intel '386, and he came out with this beauty:
>
>"Well, of course segmented architecture enables you to produce tighter,
>more modular code."

Well, the "tighter" portion of that statement can be true, IF you
can live within a segment for whatever you're doing (code or data).
But the headache of handling segment-spanning cases more than makes
up for it, in my opinion -- give me a flat address-space any day!
--
>>"Aaiiyeeee!  Death from above!"<< | Steve Rehrauer, rehrauer@apollo.hp.com
   "Flee, lest we be trod upon!"    | The Apollo System Division of H.P.