From:	"Charles Sandmann" <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: Physical memory location
Date:	Thu, 12 Nov 1998 19:43:04
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> No, not exactly. When running CWSDPMI, the linear (or logical) address
> is the same as the physical. That's because only one page is used
> (paging disabled). 

This is not true.  CWSDPMI always enables paging, and the linear and
physical addresses are almost never equal, except for the bottom 640K.
As a matter of fact, even the ring 0 version which doesn't support
virtual memory uses the page tables.

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