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From: tom@stc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Re: 386 Family Products (8086 sucks
Message-ID: <735@stc-b.stc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Dec-85 08:08:02 EST
Article-I.D.: stc-b.735
Posted: Wed Dec 11 08:08:02 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 16-Dec-85 05:05:50 EST
References: <133@daisy.UUCP> <97800013@ima.UUCP> <464@looking.UUCP>
Reply-To: tom@stc.UUCP (Tom Sanders)
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>In article <97800013@ima.UUCP> johnl@ima.UUCP writes:
>
>>/* Written  1:44 pm  Dec  3, 1985 by 5@utzoo@ecn-pc in ima:net.micro */
>Oh, stop it.  It's just not true that existing compilers can hide the 
>808x's segmentation.  I have just spent the last year and a half writing a 
>large program for the 808x with 5 other people.  We spent about 1/4 of our 
>time dealing with the addressing nonsense on the Intel chip.  The problem 
>is that if you have more than 64K total of data, you have to worry about 
>allocating that data to segments, and about addressing those segments.  
>Compilers are not much help.
>
>I really wish that it were true that a good compiler existed that could 
>hide the addressing from us, but it's not.  I looked hard, and there is no 
>compiler of any sort that simultaneously hides the addressing problems and 
>generates code adequate for programs that one can sell.  There just isn't.  
>Nor is there likely to be one any time soon.  Please correct me if I'm 
>wrong, but don't bother if you haven't run at least a 1,000 line program 
>through your compiler.  
>
>John Levine, ima!johnl
>

Pascal 86 version 3.1 handles more then 64k data invisibly.
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