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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
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Subject: Re: 32-bit addressing on the 80386 in real mode?!?
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Date: 18 Jan 90 12:32:44 GMT
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In article <1990Jan18.055726.20604@wam.umd.edu>, walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo Karl Schuermann) wrote:
}produces a 4 GByte address range.  In real mode, the registers are only
}16 bits long, and in addition, the segment and offset registers overlap
}such that the total number of bits used is not the sum of 16 + 16 being
}32 bits but only 20.  This has the unfortunate (and often confusing)
}side-effect of giving you 16 different addresses for each byte in the
}real mode address space.

Actually, that's 4096 different addresses for each byte....
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