[Info-vax] VAX vs. MV/8000 [was Re: Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks]
    John Dallman 
    jgd at cix.co.uk
       
    Mon Aug 28 15:11:00 EDT 2023
    
    
  
In article <8350f858-079b-4361-be47-97f96a4dde32n at googlegroups.com>,
xyzzy1959 at gmail.com (John Reagan) wrote:
> I've tried to stay out of this so far, but I do want to point out 
> that 64-bit mode doesn't use CS, DS, ES,  SS segments in that way.
> You can put whatever values you want into them, but they read as 0. 
> We do use GS for some things in the OS.
Thanks, I had not realised it was limited to the small model. 
John 
    
    
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