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What is a linear address?

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What is a linear address?

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A linear address is an address that your program uses. Under DOS/4G and DOS/4GW, all pointers are 32-bits and are offsets from a selector that points to the first byte of memory. Another way of describing a linear address is that it is the address the CPU feeds to the memory paging system.

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