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From: ralf+@cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
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Subject: Re: Memory above 640K being redundant (or something like that)
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Date: 21 Mar 91 04:32:25 GMT
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In article <1991Mar20.185914.11656@watdragon.waterloo.edu> rwsoukoreff@trillium.uwaterloo.ca (Rob Soukoreff) writes:
}Ok, so WHAT address does a 286/386/486 jump to when it resets, (or at
}boot time)??

286 = FFFFFF:0
386/486 = FFFFFFFF:0

In other words, the start of the highest segment in the address space.


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