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to: TOM ST DENIS
from: CRAIG HART
date: 1997-06-18 10:40:00
subject: INT 06 - Invalid Opcode

Hi..
 > CH> The 386DX has 32-bit addressing and can access 4Gb of physical RAM. 
he
 > 386
 > CH> has 24-bit addressing and can access 16Mb of physical RAM.
 > I know.  But with virtual ram, it's not on the bus... i.e if you have
 > more
 > than 4gb of ram it has to be on the hd or something... It called pages
 > (paging?) only 4gb of pages can be active at once... But you can swap
 > pages of
 > the disk to have up to ? TB of ram (I think it's 64)
AFAIK the only limitation to paging is the devce you page out to.....  ie the 
CPU implies no limitations. If this is untrue, please quote the relevant 
section of the Intel 386 manual -- you might be right, but I'm pretty sure 
you are not.
    Craig
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