Re: SweetAda 0.1e released

[Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>]

On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 07:02:45 -0700 (PDT), Roger Mc <rogermcm2@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:


>Many thanks for this which I will study in detail. Nothing is trivial. My "level of knowledge" in this context is low.
>I have been confusing the PIC (programmable interrupt controller) in the PC chipset) with a PIC microcontroller which I thought i8259 PIC was referring to.

	Heh -- until the interrupt controller was called out, when following
this thread, my first thought for PIC was Position-Independent-Code
(something more commonly found in Motorola instruction sets than Intel --
jumps/branches/calls being done relative to current Program Counter value,
not to absolute memory addresses. The reviled segmented memory of the 8086
offered a form of PIC -- code running in 64kB could be loaded on any
16-byte multiple, with the relevant segment register set to the start of
that boundary)


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