Re: 8086 design goals (and Pascal)

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From: Ian Moor
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 1989 19:52

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In article <4230@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:

   One thing I don't understand in this discussion... what feature of Pascal
   made them think no object should ever be larger than 64K? 

Possibly the Berkeley Pascal compiler's use of 16-bit indexing for arrays :-)

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