Re: [EVEN MORE OFFTOPIC] Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

[tomas]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 12:34:42PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote:

[...]

> Having had a 68k would have been awesome. No stupid memory segmentation,

So were Z8000, NS32K and many others. The horrible segmentation thing on
the '86 were the tribute to backward compatibility, which is the price
you pay for market dominance :-)

> 32bit instructions and internal address size, 24bit external address size.
> 
> Imagine a PC with 4GB adressable memory space in 1980.

Yup.

Cheers
 - t

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