Jon Forrest wrote:
Joe Landman wrote:

??? Flat memory is non-segmented by definition. Would you care to point out the flat memory addressing mode on x86 which can access all 4GB ram? I am sure I missed it.

I'll be happy to withdraw this comment.

I stand corrected on this ... x386 and higher allowed for up to 4GB per segment by virtue of the 32 bit E** registers.

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