From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 21/08/2024 23:43, Brian Gregory wrote:   
   > On 17/08/2024 08:22, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >> Or, you could bring back the old PDP-8 trick, of having the jump address   
   >> be in the *current page*. That means the upper bits are taken from the   
   >> current program counter.   
   >   
   > That must be damn annoying to program in assembler.   
   > Probably slows compilers down a fair but too.   
   >   
      
   IIRC 8086 was the same for conditional jumps.   
      
   In fact the whole small model thing was coding for a 64k page.   
      
   There were a few instructions that worked across pages...but my memory   
   is dim.   
      
      
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