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   mutazilah@gmail.com to Joe Monk   
   Re: PDOS/86   
   15 Jul 21 12:55:10   
   
   From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 11:21:27 PM UTC+10, Joe Monk wrote:   
      
   > > When PDOS/86 is running on an 80386, at startup time, it will   
   > > set all 16384 selectors to map the first 512 MiB of memory,   
   > > and then never ever change them.   
      
   > If youre talking about running in real mode, then you should take note:   
      
   No, I'm running 8086 programs in PM32. That's why   
   there is discussion about x'66' - I'm trying to see if I   
   can get some extra 8086 instructions available. They   
   may or may not be required for a Turing machine, I   
   am not familiar with that.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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