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cmrdporcupine
8y ago
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I never meant wider than 24 bits. I meant wider than the 16 bits on the 8-bit machines. Sorry if I was unclear. I didn't need a machine with more than 16MB until the mid 90s.
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mschaef
8y ago
Agreed... 16-bit physical addressing was very limiting. (x86's 16-bit segment offsets were bad enough.)
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