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From: jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman)
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Subject: Re: Why VAX Was the Ultimate CISC and Not RISC
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 09:16 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
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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