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From: jh4o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeffrey T. Hutzelman)
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Subject: Re: GS/OS et al
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Date: 17 Oct 90 15:03:21 GMT
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Todd,
	Virtually all user code that uses long addressing would break
if moved to a system with a 32-bit address bus.  The 65816 long
addressing modes use 3-byte pointers.  That means that any code
that uses long addressing will have problems with anything that
resides above the first 16M of memory.  Besides, who needs a system
with >16MB memory?
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