The TSS contains a 16-bit pointer to the bitmap, so, since it is unlikely
that two randomly allocated pieces of memory will be within 64K of each
other, the bitmap and TSS have to be allocated at the same time.
> (I don't know jack
> about i386 vm structures and and so on).
I wonder why you are in this thread then. :-)
imc
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