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forinti 45 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: 8086 Segmented Memory was a good idea

I knew a bit of 6502 assembly, so I was happy just to have more RAM and more registers.

Looking back, the simplicity of the instruction set seems quaint next to the thousands of instructions we have today.

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