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|    mutazilah@gmail.com to muta...@gmail.com    |
|    Re: PDOS/86    |
|    17 Jul 21 20:55:17    |
      From: muta...@gmail.com              On Saturday, July 17, 2021 at 5:51:30 AM UTC+10, muta...@gmail.com wrote:              > > > Since I can only get 512 MiB for 16-bit programs anyway,       > > > I may as well have the mandatory 6 selectors or whatever       > > > to address the first 3.5 GiB of memory for 32-bit programs       > > > and the rest of the selectors used for 16-bit programs in       > > > the other 512 MiB of memory.       >       > > I don't suppose there is a way to have, in addition to the       > > above, of having 64-bit programs run in the 4 GiB to       > > 32 GiB region?              > How about a new mode for x64, called CM64,       > active in PM32, where if the selector (cs/ds)       > has a base of 0xffffffff and a length of 1 (or       > something similar), then the x64 long mode       > instruction set is active?              Actually, I remember Alex told me there was a way to       access memory above 4 GiB on a 32-bit processor.              Does that method still work in PM32 on an x64? I'd       rather access that memory above 4 GiB via that       technique than not at all.              Thanks. Paul.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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