Sujet : Re: Why VAX Was the Ultimate CISC and Not RISC
De : jgd (at) *nospam* cix.co.uk (John Dallman)
Groupes : comp.archDate : 05. Mar 2025, 10:16:56
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In article <
vq82c8$232tl$7@dont-email.me>,
ldo@nz.invalid (Lawrence
D'Oliveiro) wrote:
How would you have done games without being able to directly
address screen memory? I'm sure PC/IX, being a Unix-type system,
would have disallowed that.
How?
There's no memory management hardware in an 8088, and PC/IX ran on a
basic PC/XT.
John