Date:	Thu, 21 Oct 1999 14:03:24 +0200 (IST)
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On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> > > (What is the name for "a region of memory accessed by a
> > > particular 386 protected mode selector?)
> >
> > That would be ``a segment''.
> 
> Thanks. After reading some other articles here, I thought
> "segment" only applied to real mode.

Yeah, we would all like to throw the segments out of the window,
but unfortunately Intel won't let us...

Protected mode doesn't eliminate memory segmentation.

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