D - Unsafe and doomed

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Sat Jan 4 11:13:14 PST 2014


On 1/4/2014 6:51 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> (though i think this is different in 32 and 64 bit, but as you'll probably
> remember, the interrupt table in 16 bit DOS was located at address 0.)

That was such a bad CPU design decision. It sure was a costly error. It would 
have been so much better to put the boot rom at address 0.


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