Legacy apps in Windows/OS X was Re: Old MS-DOS & Win Software

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Fri Dec 9 13:09:54 CST 2005


On 12/8/2005 at 9:49 PM Allison wrote:

However, the 8089 IOP was a piece of cruft and one big pain to debug.

Expensive, short-sighted and brain-dead, but it did have a flat 20-bit
addressing space.   The 186 with integrated periopherals and 20 bit DMA
pretty much put the kebosh on it.

Cheers,
Chuck




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