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From: tbray@watsol.waterloo.edu (Tim Bray)
Subject: Re: Segmented Architectures ( formerly Re: 48-bit computers)
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.002422.7152@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1991 00:24:22 GMT
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firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes:
 The major difficulty with a segmented architecture is that it's
 wrong, and the von-Neumann model is right.
 ...
 You have only
 to hit this problem once in a lifetime, to vow never again to buy
 a machine with a segmented address structure.

This point is so important that I'm going to waste network bandwidth, occupy
the attention of hundreds, etc., with a posting whose meat is a mere:

RIGHT ON!

Tim Bray, Open Text Systems