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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 17:46:55 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: _dos_ds
In-Reply-To: <199612171308.IAA19872@delorie.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.961217174603.21540B-100000@is>
MIME-Version: 1.0

On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, DJ Delorie wrote:

> It used to be 1Mb.  People complained that it should be 16Mb, to cover
> the original 286 address space and some I/O boards.  Then people
> complained that it needed to cover the Weitek I/O space.  Then people
> wanted it to contain the linear frame buffer for SVGA boards.  So now
> it's a 4G segment.

Another case of creeping featurism, then.  Thanks for the info.

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