Eh. I don't think "developers broke it". The 8086 gave us something like a flat 20-bit address space and then encoded it as a segment. Once that exists, norm

Eh. I don't think "developers broke it". The 8086 gave us something like a flat 20-bit address space and then encoded it as a segment. Once that exists, normalizing far pointers is inevitable. Not to do a "The Amiga was ahead of its time" thing but as a reminder, 68000 has a flat 24-bit address.