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Re: Self-hosting and the 6502

From Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: Self-hosting and the 6502
Date 2026-03-31 07:31 -0700
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 3/30/26 16:32, Lev wrote:
> 
> The segmentation approach is elegant but it's interesting
> that it lost. Flat address spaces won commercially even
> though they're worse for the problem. Paging won over
> segmentation, position-independent code stayed hard until
> relatively recently (and still isn't free on x86). Is
> there a good account of why segmentation died? I've seen
> hand-waving about 'complexity' but Multics ran fine.

Cost. It's Betamax vs. VHS, or OS/2 vs. Windows. The best technical 
approach loses to something worse, but cheaper.

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Re: Self-hosting and the 6502 Lev <thresh3@fastmail.com> - 2026-03-30 23:32 +0000
  Re: Self-hosting and the 6502 snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2026-03-31 00:36 +0100
    Re: Self-hosting and the 6502 Lev <thresh3@fastmail.com> - 2026-03-31 03:08 +0000
      Re: Self-hosting and the 6502 Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-03-31 07:45 -0700
        Re: Self-hosting and the 6502 Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2026-03-31 14:56 +0000
  Re: Self-hosting and the 6502 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-03-30 23:38 +0000
    Re: Self-hosting and the 6502 antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-04-01 16:50 +0000
      Re: segments, was Self-hosting and the 6502 John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-04-02 03:07 +0000
        Re: segments, was Self-hosting and the 6502 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-04-02 16:21 +0000
          segments and architectural experimentation (was Re: segments, was Self-hosting and the 6502) Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-09-11 08:13 -0300
            Re: segments and architectural experimentation (was Re: segments, was Self-hosting and the 6502) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-09-11 07:29 -0700
            Re: segments and architectural experimentation (was Re: segments, was Self-hosting and the 6502) john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-09-11 07:55 -0700
              Re: segments and architectural experimentation (was Re: segments, was Self-hosting and the 6502) David Schultz <david.schultz@earthlink.net> - 2026-09-11 13:06 -0500
            Re: segments and architectural experimentation (was Re: segments, was Self-hosting and the 6502) someone <2a59d59e3809f827ce709d3815e3950eef4a6a93af5557a93a7fdfba71460843@example.com> - 2026-09-14 16:45 +0000
  Re: Self-hosting and the 6502 David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid> - 2026-03-31 09:01 +0100
    Re: Self-hosting and the 6502 Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2026-03-31 09:49 +0000
  Re: Self-hosting and the 6502 Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-03-31 07:31 -0700
    Re: Self-hosting and the 6502 cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-03-31 23:45 +0000
      Re: Self-hosting and the 6502 Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-03-31 17:15 -0700
        Re: Self-hosting and the 6502 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-01 01:27 +0000
          Re: Self-hosting and the 6502 Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-03-31 19:24 -0700
            Re: Self-hosting and the 6502 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-01 03:01 +0000
              Re: Self-hosting and the 6502 Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-04-01 07:26 -0700
                Re: Self-hosting and the 6502 "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2026-04-01 15:54 +0100
                Re: Self-hosting and the 6502 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-01 20:35 +0000
                Re: Self-hosting and the 6502 snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2026-04-01 21:49 +0100
                Re: Self-hosting and the 6502 cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-04-01 16:08 +0000
                Re: Self-hosting and the 6502 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-01 20:34 +0000
                Re: Self-hosting and the 6502 Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-04-01 14:29 -0700
                Re: Self-hosting and the 6502 cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-04-01 22:37 +0000
                Re: Self-hosting and the 6502 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-01 22:52 +0000
        Re: Self-hosting and the 6502 cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-04-01 13:54 +0000
        Re: Self-hosting and the 6502 antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-04-01 17:31 +0000
  Re: Self-hosting and the 6502 cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-03-31 22:23 +0000

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