M680*0 "small model"

[Mike Wexler]

> Don't get me wrong.  I'm no fan of the 8086 architecture.  But at least
> things like PC/IX are possible on an 8086 system without an MMU,
> with lots of small model processes running that the OS can switch
> between easily.  While there is no rigid memory protection, it's
> pretty tough to step on other processes accidentally.  You have
> go into assembly language and muck with the ES or something.
How about this.  On a Altos 586(and 8086 base micro) if you pass the
compiler an unterminated string, it will cause the whole system to
crash.  I have done application development work on the 586 in C(not
recommended) and it crashes quite often.  I didn't not write one
line of assembler.
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