[PLUG] Segmented memor architecture -- Why is it bad?

[Karl M. Hegbloom]

On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 10:14, Ed Sawicki wrote:

> The Motorola processors were _so much_ better in the 1980s than the
> Intel CPU with its silly segmented memory architecture. It took
> Intel about 10 years to catch up. I recall a line from that era: "There
> are two kinds of programmers: those that hate segmented memory
> architecture and liars."

Please elucidate this subject.  Why did they choose a segmented memory
architecture, and why is it bad?