[Gllug] Small rant

[Christian Smith]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Anthony Newman wrote:

>Peter Childs wrote:
>> after all why do you think the standard kernel gets marked i386?
>
>Because it was the first Intel processor with memory protection in
>hardware, and all the instructions are backwards compatible?


The i286 had full memory protection, and up to 4GB of virtual memory.
The i432 also had utterly horrid sounding memory protection.

The i386 was the first Intel chip with paged virtual memory. But segmented
memory can also provide full protection.


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>Ant
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