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|    Alexei A. Frounze to muta...@gmail.com    |
|    Re: A20 desperation mode    |
|    12 Jul 21 19:11:40    |
      From: alexfrunews@gmail.com              On Monday, July 12, 2021 at 6:05:25 PM UTC-7, muta...@gmail.com wrote:       > 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.              Physical. If you use page translation, you can hide the discontiguity/holes.              Alex              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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