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From: peter@pa3ebv.nl.mugnet.org (Peter J. de Vrijer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: 386sx/dx
Message-ID: <9105072215@pa3ebv.nl.mugnet.org>
Date: 7 May 91 08:28:28 GMT
References: <52442@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
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In article <52442@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, nicolas@cli52or.edf.fr () wrote:
>> 
>> for the software, that is the same,
>> 
>> the sx has a 16-bit bus interface and a smaller prefetch queue.
>> 
>> C.v.W.
>> 
> 
> 16-bit bus interface : 
> does this means that the segment's size of a process is limited to 64K ?
No it just means that to get 32 bits from memory the sx has to do 2
memory reads and thus is slower than the dx.

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