segmented memory models

[Tony Duell]

> You are welcome to pick whatever kind of system that you like. Whether or
> not it is "brain-damaged" is an issue of whether it performs as intended,
> NOT whether that is yours or my favorite way of doing it.

No, I disagree with you there.

To me, if something doesn;t perform as intended/as docuemnted, then it's 
brokem. But if that intention/documentation is, shall we say, silly, then 
it's brain dead (even though it performs according to that documentation).

A hardware example is the active-high edge-triggered interrupts on the 
ISA bus. The system performs as intended (by the designers), it behaves 
as documetned (in the IBM TechRefs). But IMHO it's still brain-dead in 
that, to save one cheap TTL chip, we had IRQ conflict problems for many 
years...

-tony