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From: sambo@ukma.UUCP (Inventor of micro-S)
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Subject: Re: ANOTHER 32-BIT MACHINE???  (L O N G)
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Date: Tue, 30-Apr-85 16:41:21 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 30 16:41:21 1985
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Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences, Lexington KY
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Summary: Apart from CAD workstations and image processing, how widespread is the need for segments larger than 64K?

Never having had the need to write huge programs, how often does one really
come across the need for larger segments?  I agree that this limit is
certainly not the state of the art, but is it really such a bad idea for the
majority of applications?  I do not wish to discuss any other aspect of the
iAPX86 architecture at this point in time.