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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!att-out!cbnewsh!cbnewse!sph1
  3. From: sph1@cbnewse.cb.att.com (stephen.p.hill)
  4. Subject: Does Linux use segmentation?
  5. Organization: AT&T
  6. Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 01:13:59 GMT
  7. Message-ID: <1992Nov11.011359.27473@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
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  11. I get the impression that Linux uses combined paging and 
  12. segmentation, in fact that nearly all modern OSs use 
  13. the combination.  Is this true?(the part about Linux)
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  15. (Yeah, I just had an OS class and want to know how Linux 
  16.  fits into the "big picture" )
  17.  
  18. Stephen Hill
  19. sph1@cbnewse.att.com
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