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Andy Glew wrote:
[having per-segment page tables]
I assume you meant Novell, right?
The official Novell Netware compiler for many years was Watcom, this
happens to be the only compiler I've ever used that supported 'large'
(i.e. 48-bit) pointers in 32-bit mode, not just for 16-bit segments.
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[having per-segment page tables]
As you might imagine, Intel looked at this.
IIRC Novel seriously wanted it.
I assume you meant Novell, right?
The official Novell Netware compiler for many years was Watcom, this
happens to be the only compiler I've ever used that supported 'large'
(i.e. 48-bit) pointers in 32-bit mode, not just for 16-bit segments.
But I am rather glad that Intel did not implement
this for the x86. AMD64 is better.
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