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[Dave McGuire]

On August 3, joshua d boyd wrote:
> >   I really have no idea.  I don't think it was a particularly good
> > decision, and it has resulted in some problems.  There's just no
> > explaining some design decisions.  Take the 8086 architecture's
> > segmented addressing, for example. ;)   *BARF*
> 
> Don't IBM mainframes use segmented addressing?  Is it also *BARF*?  If
> not, what is the difference?

  I don't know.  I've never programmed an IBM mainframe in assembler.
I'm just now getting into studying them.

  I will tell you this, however...I do NOT like segmented addressing,
and if IBM mainframes have it, then that will be something that I do
not like about them. :)

       -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD