Xamiche wrote:
Hmm, I wonder why they are bothering to teach us about these microprocessors if the segmented memory addressing is so bad. If todays processors no longer use it, why teach it?
I think, some people are more narrow-mainded than we are. They know only x86 and do not want to learn any other architectures.
I didn't realise people found the system so horrible. I though it was a clever way to maintain compatibility, whilst increasing the address bus width.
Compatibility with what? x86 isn't compatible with anything else afaik. Maybe compatibility with narrow-minded people that were afraid of new truly 16/32 bit architectures? You know, x86 is very close to older 8bit ones.
