From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Olson Subject: Re: BCC, ELKS 24 Bit addressing mode Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:11:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20060323210950.G88845@agora.rdrop.com> References: <4422801D.2000006@sentvion.com> <4422EF6B.20804@gmail.com> <4422E782.1030302@sentvion.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4422E782.1030302@sentvion.com> Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linux-8086@vger.kernel.org >> Basically you're working with a 286 that's been lobotmized down to a 186 >> with the addressing features in place? >> >> > yes, but I need to address 16 Mbytes of RAM so I need to use 24 bit > addressing mode. I hate to ask, but why bother with a 186 in the first place? As I understand it, the only real difference (other than some hardware integration) between the two is that the 286 has a 24 bit address space....which you'd need if you're going to use 16M of RAM anyway. Dan