OK, but we spent a decade having to worry about this garbage, until the tooling finally caught up. You always had to keep it in the back of your mind if you wrote PC software. Even if you just ran PCs, you had to worry about the compatibility between your OS, your "DOS extender", and your programs.
There were literally millions of man-hours wasted on segment registers. A kludge that helped Intel conquer the world, but what a filthy, disgusting architecture, and what a waste of everybody's time and brain power.
There were literally millions of man-hours wasted on segment registers. A kludge that helped Intel conquer the world, but what a filthy, disgusting architecture, and what a waste of everybody's time and brain power.