On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 02:30 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: […] > PC compilers needed to support multiple pointer types. The 11 did not have > segmented addresses, so this was irrelevant for the 11. Trying to retrofit > unix > compilers with near/far/huge turned out to not be so practical, at least I > don't > know anyone who tried it.
Indeed. I much preferred the PDP-11,UNIX v6 approach to segmentation than the 8086,CP/M,DOS approach. Though it wasn't fun when there was a segmentation violation of course, I hate violation. The only thing worse was bus error. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
