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Pentium uses default segments depending on the purpose of the memory reference.
Instruction fetch - CS register
Stack operations:
in 16-bit mode: SP
in 32-bit mode: ESP.
Accessing data uses DS register.
Actual memory offsets depend on the addressing mode used by the CPU instruction.
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