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The Commodore 64 is listed as being introduced twice, in 1981 and 1986. I know it was earlier than 1986, but am not sure of the correct date. Anybody able to confirm the correct date? -- Robert Merkel
XBox has been delayed to November 15.
Exactly where does this 64 TB figure for the 80386 come from? -- Taral
It is kind of semi-supportable. Each segment is up to 4GB, and you can have heaps of segments. It would be a total pain to use this, and hardly anyone ever tried, but it was not quite an outright lie, and it was useful for Intel marketing to claim a bigger address space than Motorola after the bucketing Intel had received for so many years about the small address space of their earlier chips. For practical purposes, the maximum virtual address space of the 386 is not quite 4GB.---- COBOL was not developed by Grace Hopper, although she had a great deal of influence on the original specs. It was developed by a committee called up by the Department of Defense. And, she was not even a member of this committee. Her influence was through her development of its precursor Flow-Matic and due fact that a number of her associates did serve on this committee. RoseParks
XBox has been delayed to November 15.
Exactly where does this 64 TB figure for the 80386 come from? -- Taral
It is kind of semi-supportable. Each segment is up to 4GB, and you can have heaps of segments. It would be a total pain to use this, and hardly anyone ever tried, but it was not quite an outright lie, and it was useful for Intel marketing to claim a bigger address space than Motorola after the bucketing Intel had received for so many years about the small address space of their earlier chips. For practical purposes, the maximum virtual address space of the 386 is not quite 4GB.---- COBOL was not developed by Grace Hopper, although she had a great deal of influence on the original specs. It was developed by a committee called up by the Department of Defense. And, she was not even a member of this committee. Her influence was through her development of its precursor Flow-Matic and due fact that a number of her associates did serve on this committee. RoseParks
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