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Is that terminology coming from the CPU manufacturer or rather from the DOS makers?
by ale42 3y ago
Is 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.