Re: Debian on 640KB or RAM?

From: Pigeon (jah.pigeon_at_ukonline.co.uk)
Date: 02/15/04

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    On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 06:40:06AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote:
    > On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:48:58PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
    > > Mike writes:
    > > > I don't think the 80286 has a memory management unit
    > >
    > > It does, but the architecture is different. A 286 won't run Linux.
    >
    > Are you sure? I thought that the mmu was introduced only in the 386. I
    > think I still used direct memory access using far pointers to write the
    > video ram and such on a 286.

    I think the 286 extended the concept of far pointers somehow to extend
    the addressing range to 16 megs and make it a bit more like a proper
    MMU, but you were still limited to 64k blocks. 

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