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   mutazilah@gmail.com to muta...@gmail.com   
   Re: A20 desperation mode   
   12 Jul 21 18:05:24   
   
   From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, July 13, 2021 at 7:51:41 AM UTC+10, muta...@gmail.com wrote:   
      
   > 3. Enable desperation mode and then email Jens to carpet   
   > bomb Taiwan for making you lose half your memory and   
   > fragmenting what remains into 1 MiB chunks so that you   
   > can no longer run a 3 MB executable like gccwin (recommended).   
      
   Actually, does A20 constrain physical or virtual addresses?   
      
   If the former, I could enable VM, have a return to flat memory,   
   at the expense of just losing half the memory. ie I can still   
   run 3 MB executables.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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