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Maximum number of segments per process is 16K.
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Each segment can be as large as 4 GB.
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The page size is 4K.
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The logical address is a pair of 16-bit selector and 32-bit offset.
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The segment selector is used to index the descriptor table to obtain the descriptor entry.
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The 64-bit descriptor entry (8 bytes) has detailed information about the particular segment including the 32-bit base address and length of the logical segment.
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Protected-mode address translation:
