From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,da46977c58c329df X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-08 13:42:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!ppp-2-254.5800-11.telinco.NET!not-for-mail From: nickroberts@ukf.net (Nick Roberts) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada's Slide To Oblivion ... Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 21:45:04 GMT Message-ID: <3c641c87.420422192@news.cis.dfn.de> References: <4519e058.0201310714.650888e1@posting.google.com> <3C598CAA.7040801@home.com> <3C59FCD3.928144FB@adaworks.com> <7v8za79id0.fsf@vlinux.voxelvision.no> <3C6288CB.3227AF20@cfmu.eurocontrol.be> <3C62D397.8040001@mail.com> <%rC88.3860$oC3.2148048@typhoon.san.rr.com> <3C63AB8A.F52337D8@cfmu.eurocontrol.be> <7vlme4w4ax.fsf@vlinux.voxelvision.no> <3c63c7a5.398689067@news.cis.dfn.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-2-254.5800-11.telinco.net (212.1.153.254) X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1013204545 45877912 212.1.153.254 (16 [25716]) X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19799 Date: 2002-02-08T21:45:04+00:00 List-Id: Ian has corrected me in that both the 8086/8 and 68000 did indeed have such control signals. Later members of both families (I presume) dropped them as they acquired more sophisticated memory management capabilities. -- Nick Roberts