On 1999-04-27 18:53, Peter Allen wrote:

> It is because on i386 machines the processor boots in real
> mode, which is limited to the (in)famous 640Kb.

(I am quite sure that) the 640 k limit is DOS, while the CPU's
real-mode limit is 1 MB.


/Allan
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