Re: AltairZ80 simulator updated

cavelamb himself wrote:
(snip)

The 8088 had a 20 bit address bus = 1 meg.

That is true, but you could do more.

There were pins that would indicate which segment the
address came from. One could have a separate address
space for code, stack, and data. I believe the 8080
could also do that based on the type of access.

-- glen

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