Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: ATTACK OF KILLER MICROS
Message-ID: <1989Oct23.163558.173@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <35825@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <1081@m3.mfci.UUCP> <35979@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <1259@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <74731@linus.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 89 16:35:58 GMT

In article <74731@linus.UUCP> munck@chance.UUCP (Robert Munck) writes:
>... The 386 supports 16,384 segments of up
>to 4GB, 14 bits plus 32 bits => 46 bit addresses...

Except that it's not a 46-bit address space, it's a bunch of 32-bit ones.
There is a difference.  As witness the horrors that are perpetrated on
8086/88/186/286 machines to try to cover up their lack of a unified
address space.  "Near" and "far" pointers, anyone?
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