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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: comp.sys.intel (segmentation discussion)
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Date: Sat, 22-Nov-86 01:02:38 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 22 01:02:38 1986
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In article <113@wldrdg.UUCP> tony@wldrdg.UUCP (Tony Andrews) writes:
>Intel representatives (yes, actual employees) have repeatedly stated
>that the 286 is a good UNIX machine, in comparison to 32-bit processors
>like the 68K and 32032. (And if you only support small model, and really
>use it as a 16 bit machine, that's actually true.)

Well, it's no worse than a PDP-11. But I'm not going to defend such
claims. I have actually heard people at my company say similar things.
But they were marketing types, not engineers.

With regard to the high cost of reloading segment registers, maybe
what is needed is the equivalent of what TLBs do in the paging world.

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