[Gllug] Small rant

Chris Hunter chrisehunter at blueyonder.co.uk
Sat Nov 12 01:19:08 UTC 2005


Nix wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Christian Smith stated:
> 
>>The i432 also had utterly horrid sounding memory protection.
> 
> 
> OK, you've piqued my curiosity. I know nothing about the i432, but...
> how could they have made something worse than the segmented joy which
> was the 80286? What on earth did they do?

The wackiest was the 80186 - utterly incompatible with /anything/ else!

Chris

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