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

[mylar]

On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 20:36 -0400, Alex Pilosov wrote:
> 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.
> 
> :)

A superb summary :)   I like it.

mylar

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