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Re: Debian on 640KB or RAM?



Pigeon writes:
> I think the 286 extended the concept of far pointers somehow to extend
> the addressing range to 16 megs and make it a bit more like a proper MMU,
> but you were still limited to 64k blocks.

Sort of.  The 286 had a truly brain-damaged segmentation scheme.  It did
run protected-mode Unix, but it was pretty whacked-out.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI



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