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From: feustel@ihlpl.UUCP (Feustel)
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Subject: Re: 386 Family Products
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Date: Mon, 23-Dec-85 14:01:51 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 23 14:01:51 1985
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> > On the 386, "small model" (which of course does not exist per se) is
> > 4 Gigabytes.
> 
> Quite true, but irrelevant to the point I was making:  that the 386's
> segments are largely useless, and do not constitute a useful feature.

386 segments provide a useful way to access data files as a byte-addressable
array instead of as a series of records which must be seeked, getted and putted.