On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:45:25 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
After that, IBM decided on an architecture that split the 1MB up into
the motherboard and peripherals (where in this case the BIOS, whose
primary job was controlling peripherals, broadly counts as peripheral

Ah the beauty of a von neuman architecture. Not. If we'd used the harvard
layout life would have been a lot simpler plus malware would be a lot harder
to write and a lot easier to spot.

But it might have cost a few pence more to build the CPUs so obviously it
couldn't be used.

*sigh*

B2003