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From: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 08:34
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 08:34
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On 30/04/2018 00:32, Peter Flass wrote: > > Did the 8080 have segment > registers? No. 64K max > Why not 4-bit segment registers to > encode only the top four bits of an address? Because that would limit your program segments to be on boundaries of 64K With the 16 bit shifted left, your segment boundary is a multiple of 16
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