On 27/04/2018 18:28, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2018-04-27, The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
>
>> On 27/04/18 12:50, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote:
>>
>>> On 27/04/2018 10:46, Andreas Neumann wrote:
>>>
>>>> Andrew Gabriel wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Why do you want a 64 bit build?
>>>>
>>>> Because 64 bit are twice as good as 32 bit?
>>>
>>> Definitely a 6dB improvement on the ease of programming.
>>> For the first time an architecture exists where no effort
>>> need be expended on programming your way around its
>>> limitations, the 8051 and 6303 being the worst in
>>> my experience!
>
> Worse than 8086/8?  Must have been bad...

Did a lot in 8086 assembler; never found it to be difficult
or a problem.


>
>> Well C takes care of all that, except yupu have to remembert int_32 and
>> int_16 if you want those sizes..
>
> And then all that pointer fiddling.  Forget the 640K barrier, it was the
> 64K barrier that drove me nuts.  Small memory model, medium, large, huge,
> near pointers, far pointers, pointer normalization, shuffling things into
> and out of work areas so I didn't get segment wraparounds followed by
> inexplicable data corruption and crashes...  Good riddance to all that.
>

You missed the Tiny model.

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