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Originally posted by RealNC View PostWhile 4GB of memory is enough for most apps, 65kB is not.
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Also if I recall my DOS real-mode days you were able to address up to 1megabyte(!) of ram using segment registers, so no
lousy 64k here
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Originally posted by XorEaxEax View PostHeh, yeah but imagine all the code we could fit into the cpu caches if pointers are only 16-bit!!!
Also if I recall my DOS real-mode days you were able to address up to 1megabyte(!) of ram using segment registers, so no
lousy 64k here
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There was also EMS memory (and the EMS memory emulator "emm386.exe" that came packaged with MS-DOS later on). Now those were the days. What a fscking circus that was :-PLast edited by RealNC; 07 June 2012, 10:38 PM.
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostThere was also EMS memory (and the EMS memory emulator "emm386.exe" that came packaged with MS-DOS later on). Now those were the days. What a fscking circus that was :-P
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Oh how I loved (as in loved to hate) the near and far pointer rubbish :P
And EMS was truly awful! You had to raise an interrupt saying you want this 64k block allocated in this highmem block...
the Flat 32-bit model was just so much easier to work with!
But seriously x32 is what ia32 _SHOULD_ have been. 8 registers where 2 of them are "special purpose' -> so only 6 registers...
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Originally posted by grigi View PostBut seriously x32 is what ia32 _SHOULD_ have been. 8 registers where 2 of them are "special purpose' -> so only 6 registers...
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omg, someone mentioned main mem and EMS. I had just sealed these old wounds.
EMS was so horrible. Some progs needed it, some hated it so you always had to reboot when you wanted to use a different program.
on topic:
Gentoo rocks.Stop TCPA, stupid software patents and corrupt politicians!
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostIf it's multilib, yes. Just like now with x86-64 distros who also provide 32-bit libraries. Gentoo is not multilib, btw. It can only build x32 packages. (Just like Gentoo AMD64 can't build 32-bit packages.) A true multilib distro might not have those limitations.
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