From: "Johan Venter" <jventer AT writeme DOT com>
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Subject: Re: is that right? please correct me.
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Damian Yerrick <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com> wrote in message
news:7uj838$794$1 AT solomon DOT cs DOT rose-hulman DOT edu...
> FWIW, there's a stub, a COFF header, and an executable
> image. The relocation is done by DPMI; programs always
> start 4 kilobytes (0x1000 bytes) into the program's allocated
> "segment."
>
> (What is the name for "a region of memory accessed by a
> particular 386 protected mode selector?)

How about "The region of memory accessed by the nth descriptor in the GDT in x
selector" :-))

Segment is the correct term (IME).

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