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I kinda wish they had. 64k windows with no overlap would make segment registers a slightly inconvenient 32-bit address register. I get why hey didn't. Someone
by billpg 3mo ago
I kinda wish they had. 64k windows with no overlap would make segment registers a slightly inconvenient 32-bit address register.
I get why hey didn't. Someone might want to run two processes each with its own segment, but the whole machine might only have 64k in total.