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From: nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Re: 386 Family Products (8086 sucks
Message-ID: <154@utastro.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 11:51:22 EST
Article-I.D.: utastro.154
Posted: Tue Dec 10 11:51:22 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 11-Dec-85 21:43:13 EST
References: <133@daisy.UUCP> <97800013@ima.UUCP> <464@looking.UUCP>
Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX
Lines: 19
Summary: Transparency

> In article <97800013@ima.UUCP> johnl@ima.UUCP writes:
> >
> >I really wish that it were true that a good compiler existed that could 

In article <464@looking.UUCP>, brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
> I'll correct you, because you are wrong.  Our product  [...]
> required almost no segment funnies to compile and run in large model.
           ^^^^^^ ^^
> Funny code to deal with segmentation is only required in dealing with
> the operating system or special hardware, and it isn't all that hard to write.
> 

"Transparent ..." (your phrase, Brad) does NOT mean "almost no ...",
it means NONE.  Not a few.  Not easy to do.  NONE.
-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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