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From: Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com>
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Subject: Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 18:24:24 -0700
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On Wed, 11 Sep 2024 21:34:25 +0000, MitchAlsup1 wrote:
>> I am not a fan of segmentation ...

On 9/11/2024 4:45 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> Big segments versus small segments are quite different things.

Segments do different things. The aspect of segments that I liked in the 
80286 was that they provided an excewllent mechanism for array bounds 
checking. I would have loved having that option within a linear, paged 
address space. But the languages in wide use at the time did not support 
that.