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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 217.84.3.15 (talk) at 12:13, 11 March 2006 (Segments in Linux). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.
Segments in Real mode on the Intel x86 architecture overlapped, which is poor design.

I removed this because Wikipedia should not pronounce judgement on what's good and what's bad design. It was tempting to leave it in with the weasel phrase "Some feel that...", since I do feel it's poor design, but I resisted. - furrykef (Talk at me) 02:42, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Segments in Linux

“The Linux kernel uses only four segments…” Really? Doesn’t Linux use TSS segments as well? And some others? Understanding the Linux Kernel (2nd edition) says so about the 2.4 kernel. Don’t know whether it’s true for the 2.6 kernel as well…

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