Xenix 286?

[woodelf]

Eric J Korpela wrote:
> On 2/23/06, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
 
However, paging frees
>>the programmer from worrying about organizing things in segmented fashion
>>(and having to deal with selectors)--what is seen is simply a huge linear
>>address space (Usually CS=DS=ES=FS=GS and nobody changes them).
> 
> 
> <SOAPBOX>
> And we're still paying for this brain dead choice with buffer and
> stack overrun exploits.  Whoever was the nitwit that decided to make
> data and stack pages should be accessible through the code selector
> and code should be accessible through the data selector should be
> tarred and feathered. 
> </SOAPBOX>
> 

I suspect this was to give 8080 compatable programing.