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The whole confused and confusing epoch of "expanded" memory versus "extended" memory proved that Intel processors were designed by the Devil himself.
by euroderf 3y ago
The whole confused and confusing epoch of "expanded" memory versus "extended" memory proved that Intel processors were designed by the Devil himself.
- AceJohnny2 3y ago> were designed by the Devil himself a.k.a. Intel, who also designed USB "Full Speed" vs "High Speed" ("Full Speed" was the maximum speed of USB 1.0, 12 Mb/s, which also had "Low Speed", 1.5 Mb/s which is used by keyboards and mice. "High Speed" was introduced in USB 2.0, and is 480 Mb/s) Joke's aside, I have empathy for the pain of naming in protocols and systems that get extended and remain backwards compatible. Intel was the king at this.
- weinzierl 3y agoThey should have called it Ludicrous Speed.
- olivermuty 3y agoCant wait for plaid speed usb in a couple of years
- ale42 3y agoIs that terminology coming from the CPU manufacturer or rather from the DOS makers?
- euroderf 3y agoEither way, confusing stuff. My other pet peeve about Intel is, why the heck would they make a paragraph just 16 bytes ? Why not 256 ?
- hyperman1 3y agoThe 8086 was a stopgap, to have something to sell until the 432 was finished. Maybe they wanted it to be an evolutionary dead end, and 16MB address space was too dangerous? Notice also how the 80186 was PC incompatible.