TH> After all, the 16-bit model segmentation is limited to 1Mb
TH> addressing, I never looked into how those folks at Intel did the
TH> work-around.
Going by some of the p/mode docs I've seen around, the system works by
having cs, ds, etc all work as selectors - to cs=1234h does not mean your
code is at 1234h:ip, but that the CPU understands cs=1234h to index an array
or similar. Having 32bit offsets also helps, mind you =)
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