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From: rs1626@ucsfcca.UUCP (Sean Curry)
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Subject: Naive questions about 8086 and 80286 processors
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Date: Sun, 16-Jun-85 12:42:57 EDT
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	What exactly are the implications of having 64K segments in
the 8086 and 80286 processors? For that matter, what exactly are these
segments and why are they used ?  How does their presence affect a
typical programmer, using a high-level language (c) under MS-DOS
or XENIX ?    How would their presence affect programs with large
data arrays (say 256K bytes), used for image processing ?

	Thanks to all how can enlighten me on these basis points.