27 Jun
2016
27 Jun
'16
11:45 p.m.
Ronald Natalie scripsit:
Hard to believe the 8086 chip was “optimized” for
anything.
The instruction set was designed for programming terminals.
Well, yes. But the four separate address spaces work fine for Pascal,
where it is always statically known whether a pointer is to code,
global data, the stack (internal only), or the heap. For C they were
nothing but a nuisance: C can handle separate I & D space, but that's all.
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What asininity could I have uttered that they applaud me thus?
--Phocion, Greek orator