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to: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
from: Mike Bilow
date: 1995-09-03 18:01:22
subject: Os/2

Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote in a message to Duncan Christie:

 JdBP>   Each Intel OS/2 process has a linear address space (read
 JdBP> up on the   linear addressing scheme of the 386 if you don't
 JdBP> know what this is) of   512Mb. Intel OS/2 processes run (in
 JdBP> ring 3) with segmentation   effectively disabled (DS=ES=SS)
 JdBP> using the 32-bit near addressing mode   of the 16:32 scheme.
* * *
 JdBP>   Of course, the scheme for PowerPC OS/2 is different.

Since you raise the issue, and you have been working with PowerPC OS/2,
what is the scheme used there?
 
-- Mike


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