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Subject: Re: Whizzy New Feature: Paged segmented memory
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On Tuesday, January 8, 2002, at 09:14 AM, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> At least with Intel ix8*, even though one can create a discriptor for
> a (backwards) stack, you would have a hard time using it. 
> 'Push' op-codes
> decrement the stack-pointer and 'pop' increments it regardless of
> the characteristics of the stack-selector.

You'd have to do it manually, without those instructions. That's 
what you get for using a CISC architecture from who-knows-when.

I'd guess most RISC architectures don't have this problem.

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