Why do PCs load their boot sector at 7C000h linear?

Re:Why do PCs load their boot sector at 7C000h linear? by 2sk21 on Saturday September 26, 2015 @06:14AM (#10282681)

I love this kind of software archeology. I think I first came across this term in Vernor Vinge's book "A Deepness in the Sky".

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Re:Why do PCs load their boot sector at 7C000h linear? by pavedwalden on Saturday September 26, 2015 @02:20PM (#10283925)

I'm not sure which Zones Of Thought book it was (probably Deepness in the Sky), but my favorite software joke in SciFi is when someone deep-diving into the system discovers that at the deepest layers timekeeping is still calculated from the UNIX epoch on the long lost human homeworld.

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Re:Why do PCs load their boot sector at 7C000h linear? by acheron on Saturday September 26, 2015 @03:56PM (#10284224)

Reminds me of this: http://abstrusegoose.com/323

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Re:Why do PCs load their boot sector at 7C000h linear? by madez on Saturday September 26, 2015 @04:00PM (#10284232)

I wouldn‘t call it software archeology because it is still very much in use and modern standard.

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