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

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 30 May 2002, Steve Christiansen wrote:

> This isn't much more than legend, but the way I heard it was that the only
> software engineer on the 8086 development team came from DEC and its
> PDP-11 segmented architecture (16-bit registers, 18-bit addresses).
> Apparently the project leader later regretted the decision, but they were
> stuck with it.
 
Steve,

  FWIW, that's the rumor I heard way back when, too.

Rich