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|    Joe Monk to All    |
|    Re: PDOS/86    |
|    15 Jul 21 14:30:42    |
      From: joemonk64@gmail.com              > No, I'm running 8086 programs in PM32.              Ah, so V86 mode. Well in PM32 then, your max address space is 1MB + 64k...              "The hardware provides a virtual set of registers (via the TSS), a virtual       memory space (the first megabyte of the linear address space of the task), and       directly executes all instructions that deal with these registers and with       this address space."              https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2005/readings/i386/c15.htm              Joe              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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