From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: <3B4F091E.9242B958@null.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20010713091130.B8A0D199C0@mail.cse.psu.edu>, <20010713131151.Y22003@cackle.proxima.alt.za> Subject: Re: [9fans] how people learn things (was architectures) Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 15:26:08 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: cb78f4f4-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Lucio De Re wrote: > No more than from Intel (they are to be blamed for CP/M, too), > overlooking the fact that their address bus was wider than the > register size, or scrapping the i860/i960 developments. > They are rushed decisions that can't be reversed. ... Even the original PDP-11 had a wider address bus than its register (word) size. It wasn't a "rushed decision", although in the long run it caused enough trouble that a whole new architecture was designed to replace it.