Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 12:57:24 -0400
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Just a few questions
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> Your points about the tiny model and flat model being essentially
> the same thing are correct, but I still maintain that the 16-bit
> version is called "tiny" and the 32-bit version is called
> "flat".

Intel's documentation doesn't agree with you.  "Flat" has a very
specific meaning - it means that you've set all segments to start at
physical address zero and span the entire 4Gb memory space.  If your
segments aren't set up this way, it's not flat.  DJGPP doesn't set up
its segments this way.