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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 07:19:33 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 11 Sep 2024 18:24:24 -0700, Lars Poulsen wrote:

> On 9/11/2024 4:45 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> Big segments versus small segments are quite different things.
> 
> Segments do different things. The aspect of segments that I liked in the
> 80286 ...

I wasn’t talking about x86-style “segmentation”, which was just a hack to 
extend the address space in an awkward way. I was talking about segments 
within a linear address space (and I assumed Mitch was, too).