Re: equivalent to far in linux/unix

From: Rich Teer (rich.teer_at_rite-group.com)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:38:16 GMT

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Andrew Falanga wrote:

> Thank you all for your responses. Sounds like this won't be as much a
> deal as I thought. Whoever, or whomever, thought up virtual memory ...
> thank you. This other models sounds rather like a pain to work with.

Virtual memory has only been around, oh, about 10 years BEFORE the first
version of DOS shipped. That such hacks such as "near" and "far" show
how brain damaged the design of the original x86 was* and how brain damaged
DOS was, even in the era of 386 and newer x86 CPUs.

* The equivelent Motorola chip, the 68000 did not make such a mistake.
What a shame the designers of the original IBM PC didn't chose this
much better CPU for their creation... 

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