MadSci Network: Computer Science
Query:

Re: How many bytes does a memory address represent?

Date: Sat Feb 23 11:44:20 2002
Posted By: Mike Harrison, , Freelance electronics consultant, White Wing Logic
Area of science: Computer Science
ID: 1012502277.Cs
Message:

You are confusing segmnents with bytes. On x86 processors,a segment is 
sixteen (10 hex) bytes long.


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