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In article <28200016@ccvaxa> aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP writes:
>virtual address and I've seen articles saying that the 80386 has a 16T
>address space (Milutinovc in last month's computer).  What are the
>exact specs on the 80386?

the 386 has a 32-bit physical address bus brought out of the chip.  Internally,
the chip can address 2**14, 2**32 byte segments, so that is where the maximum
size of the address space (2**46) comes in.  Note that internally, the
segmented address space is transformed into a 32-bit "linear" address space
which is presented to the paging unit, which transforms it to the 32-bit
physical address space.  So, what you get is a 32-bit "flat" machine, or
a 32-bit machine with a much larger segmented memory space.  As was said about
the HP "Precision" machine, this may not quite what this discussion is about,
since it still is a 32-bit machine.
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