Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: PC/IX, Unix on x86, Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies Worth Date: 3 Sep 2025 03:10:44 GMT Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <108l4vk$77t$1@gal.iecc.com> <108smt4$2pi1$1@gal.iecc.com> <108sqta$256ak$8@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net vRGW5NJQwtKwLb70eU8xDg1YFrLQyufC/csyAhFjVDxb7d1EPA Cancel-Lock: sha1:U0+QdeEaPUyvMGSvy1iF7VZ+KEk= sha256:kZXoDiqsAieTKG+CjUOA37ik/dEXWlqNRikDOwPOmII= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:73111 alt.folklore.computers:231737 On Tue, 02 Sep 2025 21:22:35 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2025-08-30, rbowman wrote: > >> On Sat, 30 Aug 2025 03:06:11 -0400, c186282 wrote: >> >>> Tbe original 8088 had all the needed registers. >>> Could minimum deliver at LEAST an easy 64k code space and at LEAST >>> another 64k data area. A few tricks and ....... >> >> They mostly followed the bank switching the Z80s were doing but >> incorporated the memory management into the processor. After all, the >> i432 was the REAL answer so why get fancy with the Band-Aid. > > "It's a good thing the iAPX432 never took off. Otherwise a totally > horrid Intel architecture might have taken over the world." There truly are worse things than the x86. I think one of the 432 designers had a computer science degree. That's the kiss of death :)