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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga UNIX
Message-ID: <2177@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jun 88 14:14:18 GMT
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In article ... mwjones@lion.waterloo.edu (Morgan Jones) writes:
> >It was my understanding that the 80386 is not restricted to 64k segments.

> Right.  It has 16M segments (or some other huge number).

Try 4 gigabytes. Which means that for practical purposes you can ignore the
segmentation. Unless you're a PL/M junkie who *likes* the things.
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