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Intel 8086: Segmented Memory, Prefetching, and the Start of x86
Explore the 8086 architecture behind x86: 20-bit physical addressing, overlapping 64 KiB segments, the EU/BIU prefetch queue, and the 8088 bus trade-off.
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