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:8VnP3.263$zO DOT 13406 AT dfiatx1-snr1 DOT gtei DOT net...

> Thanks. After reading some other articles here, I thought
> "segment" only applied to real mode.

Well, think about it. A segment generally refers to a piece, or a part of
something.

The GDT holds descriptors which have a base and a limit, thus making each
descriptor a *segment* of memory from base to base+limit, just as the real mode
segment 0xA000 ranges from 0xA000:0 to 0xA000:0xFFFF.

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