Re: What about Assembly Language?
>The 8088 / 8086 was really a superset of 8080, hence the awful 64K segments and no 16 bit flat addressing like all the true 16 bit cpus in early 1980s.
Blame the IBM PC which used the Intel 8086 in preference to Motorola or National Semiconductor (who's architecture and instruction set was perhaps the best of the three), and the rest is history.
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