Developing Mars lander software

[Russel Winder]

On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 02:30 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
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> 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.

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