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|    wolfgang kern to All    |
|    Re: PDOS/86    |
|    14 Jul 21 22:03:50    |
      From: nowhere@never.at              On 14.07.2021 20:18, muta...@gmail.com wrote:              [about...]       my English is good enough to understand what you try to achieve.       but it seems you haven't got how segment descriptors are built       and how segment selectors interact with the GDT.              you sure can map many 64KB physical consecutive blocks to also       consecutive segment descriptors i.e.:              0008 base 0000_0000 code limit ffff       0010 base 0000_0000 data       0018 base 0001_0000       0020 base 0001_0000              but the selector must be calculated, simple shift wont help here.       so your idea to make it an easy solution fell flat :)       __       wolfgang              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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