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Re: Dumbest DOS in the World!

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From: Peter Lim
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 1991 09:32
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/ det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) /  4:17 am  Jan 23, 1991 /

$ I beg your pardon?  I thought that the 386 was a segmented architecture.
$ -- 
$

Yeap ! With the proper environment, 386 is a segmented architecture with
each segment as big as 4 GB. 386 is linear when you use the "small
memory" model --- ie. you fit everything into one 4 GB segment.


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Subject: Re: Dumbest DOS in the World!
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