Re: [OT] Documentation for PC Architecture
From: Jamie Lokier (jamie_at_shareable.org)
Date: 08/19/03
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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:30:34 +0100 To: Nagendra Singh Tomar <nagendra_tomar@adaptec.com>
Nagendra Singh Tomar wrote:
> What is this 2nd address translation you are mentioning.
> I always thought that for the sake of cleanliness we just forget about the
> 384K of memory starting from 640K. RAM anyway is cheap.
> Pl correct me if I'm missing something.
That is probably true of modern machines. It is hard to tell from the
e820 map on two machines I just looked at, because other bits of RAM
are missing, more than 384k.
The original question asked about "the PC architecture", and I can say
for sure that a PC with 1MB does not just forget about 384k of it :)
-- Jamie
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