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I am pretty sure it is a hardware limitation....
Are well, it doesn't matter particularly.
Peter Allen
Allan M. Wind wrote:
>
> On 1999-04-27 18:53, Peter Allen wrote:
>
> > It is because on i386 machines the processor boots in real
> > mode, which is limited to the (in)famous 640Kb.
>
> (I am quite sure that) the 640 k limit is DOS, while the CPU's
> real-mode limit is 1 MB.
>
> /Allan
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