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From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich)
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Subject: Re: Segmented Architectures ( formerly Re: 48-bit computers)
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Date: 15 Apr 91 17:32:53 GMT
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In article <p-bgl5n@rpi.edu> fargo@iear.arts.rpi.edu (Irwin M. Fargo) writes:
>With what I know of OSs, wouldn't segmentation be what the OS wants?
Not want, but have, and use, even before VM. The question is, given that
8086-style segmentation support is Bad, and maybe even B5500-style support
is taken to be Bad, and maybe even HP PA or RS6000 support is Bad, is there 
anything Good that computer architectures can do to support segmentation?
Besides ignore it completely, as most do now?

ron