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* LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI
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On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Tahir Hashmi wrote:
> >When reset, 386 points to a default location in PROM. ( the
> >location is FFFF0H note: for 8086 compatibility 16 bit address)
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> You probably meant FFF0H.
I think 0xffff0 is correct. Remember, 8086 has a 20 bit address bus
(1MB addressable memory). 8088 had to multiplex 4 bits since
motherboards only had a 16 bit address bus.
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