[rescue] Mac Appliance

James Sharp rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Aug 3 20:34:56 CDT 2001


>   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*

NO NO NO SEGMENTED ADDRESSING.  RUN AWAY FAST.  RUN AWAY SCREAMING.  FLAT
ADDRESS SPACE GOOD.

Er.  Ahem.

Now was that a near pointer, a far pointer, a far far pointer, or a
second star to the right and straight on till morning pointer.




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