[nylug-talk] LOWMEM vs. HIGHMEM performance advantage?

[Alex Pilosov]

On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 wdg3rd at comcast.net wrote:

> Hard to say.  Half or more of the problems with the current 32 and 64
> bit Intel-oid CPUs is legacy from the 8/16 bit roots they came from.  
> (And yes, there are also remnants of the 8080 and even the 4004 in the
> spiffy new things -- read the assembly language instruction set
> manuals).  Damn, but I wish Motorola had continued the 68k line instead
<snip>
back in win 95 days, it was: 
A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch to an 
eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor 
and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.

:)