From: dmhills{at}attglobal.net (Don Hills)

In article , "Dave Ings"
 wrote:
>I had a look at Rich's reference and all I can say is "ugh".
Brings back
>unpleasant memories of past systems I've worked on as they transitioned
>from a lesser number of bits to a greater number. Segmented
>architectures are evil, and cause no end of grief for the application
>developer community.

Tony Ingenoso made a point some months ago that bears repeating: If we were
still using a strictly segmented memory architecture, we would not be
seeing the security holes and exploits that we do today. What's worse: a
segmented memory architecture, or the mess we're in as a result of not
using one?

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