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From: mdm@ecn-pc.UUCP (Mike D McEvoy)
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Subject: Re: 386 Family Products
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Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 10:27:03 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  3 10:27:03 1985
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>> Correction:  if you're going to call them fools, Henry, preface that
>> with 'rich'.
>As in "I'll be rich if I can only convince my program to run on this
>@%&$^%$#!& processor with those @$#@#&^%&! 64KB segments!"?  :-) :-)
>				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology


1) Last I checked, the 386 had segments just a bit larger than 64k.
2) High level languages make this problem transparent to the user.
   The majority of the free world refuses to use asssembler other than
   when necessary and rarely does a module exceed 64k.