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nuclear war (Miscellaneous)

posted by marcov, 10.11.2022, 11:19

Well, the only thing I can say is that universities would simply make a linear 24 or 32-bit address space or use some other better addressing scheme to access 16+ quantities (e.g. by having wider addressing registers)

Keep in mind that the 16-bit x86 segment model is mostly due to legacy with CP/M, something that wouldn't matter after WW-III.

p.s. the dspic is a true 16-bit mpu. Most only have 28 or 56k, and those are already the more high ends. Recently a new CK breaks the 64k barrier, but that is a recent requirement. Self hosted compilers are therefore unlikely.

 

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