On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 12:46:52PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Ron Johnson writes: > > But back in the day, with the limited silicon budget, segmentation is a > > great way for a 16 bit system (that wants to maintain upward > > compatibility with the 8080/8085) to address more than 64KB. > > There was no upward compatibility between the 8080 and the 8086. > -- > John Hasler
There was some at the assembly-language level -- it was possible to write conversion utilities that did *most* of the job. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
