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To: Steve Porter who wrote (41742)11/18/1998 2:14:00 AM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572764
 
Steve - Re: "The thing I hated most about the 8086 and x86 up until the 386 was teh segmented memory access scheme."

This didn't bother me at all.

My assembled code was less than 17,000 bytes and I thought the ability to use Data segments to keep track of data - separate from the code - was a real convenience.

Paul