Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 8086 design goals (and Pascal)
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Date: 18 May 89 13:58:49 GMT
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One thing I don't understand in this discussion... what feature of Pascal
made them think no object should ever be larger than 64K? It's this 64K limit
that's the main problem in the 8086 family... the segments themselves are
a relatively minor problem. Even for 'C' there's no rule against , or real
difficulty with, putting one object (or at most a few objects) in a segment.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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