On 7/12/19 2:54 am, Rhodri James wrote:

You've talked some about not making the 640k mistake

I think it's a bit unfair to call it a "mistake". They had a 1MB
address space limit to work with, and that was a reasonable place
to put the division between RAM and display/IO space. If anything
is to be criticised, it's Intel's decision to only add 4 more
address bits when going from an 8-bit to a 16-bit architecture.

--
Greg
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