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Article #22585Re: 64-bit addresses
From: David Alan Feustel
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1990 01:45
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1990 01:45
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This may be nit picking, but the 386 has only a 46 bit address space. 2 bits in the segment register are used for other functions than addressing.
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