Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:30:34 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Documentation for PC Architecture |
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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 :)
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