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From: Jody <jbruchon@nc.rr.com>
To: Linux-8086 <linux-8086@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: BCC, ELKS 24 Bit addressing mode
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:17:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <442380EA.5050807@nc.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060323210950.G88845@agora.rdrop.com>

186 CPUs have various non-CPU functionality integrated into the chip 
itself, which is one reason it's popular in some embedded designs.

Dan Olson wrote:
>>> 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
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-24  5:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-23 11:01 BCC, ELKS 24 Bit addressing mode Serdar Sutay
2006-03-23 18:56 ` Segin
2006-03-23 18:22   ` Serdar Sutay
2006-03-24  5:11     ` Dan Olson
2006-03-24  5:17       ` Jody [this message]
2006-03-24  5:28         ` Dan Olson
2006-03-25 22:11           ` Gregg C Levine
2006-03-24  9:44       ` Andrey Romanenko
2006-03-23 19:53 ` Jody
2006-03-23 23:00   ` Eric des Courtis
2006-03-24 10:39 ` David Given

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