8086 Segmented Memory Was a Good Idea. (Almost.)

How’s that for a click‑bait title. Who in their right mind would defend the monstrosity that is the 8086 segmented memory architecture? By the time I got into 8086 assembly, PCs were mostly 80286‑based, but everything still ran under DOS. A “normal” machine only had the canonical 640KB of conventional memory and every assembly book Continue reading "8086 Segmented Memory Was a Good Idea.…