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From: ahh@glyph.UUCP (Andy Heffernan)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: FAST?
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Date: 9 Jan 91 01:03:05 GMT
References: <1991Jan1.021650.27033@cbnewse.att.com> <37482@cup.portal.com> <1991Jan5.052841.3618@cbnews.att.com> <37648@cup.portal.com>
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In article <37648@cup.portal.com> thad@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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