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 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/U7DHPGSMVQAQMC5I6MBXSXPR7W5J2X5J/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/