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Message: [QUOTE="Daniel Rudy, post: 1710891"] And somewhere around the time of 05/17/2004 23:02, the world stopped and listened as August Derleth contributed the following to humanity: On the 8086, a memory page is 16 bytes. Every segment starts and ends on a 16 byte boundary. This is why that 3186:3DE0 = 35640 & 3187:3DD0 also = 35640. It was much easier to send the CPU out into the weeds and crash those machines because there was *NO* memory protection enforced by the hardware. AFAIK, there was no swap either because the paging mechanism doesn't exist on that ancient hardware. [/QUOTE]