Re:The Life of MS-DOS
by ok123456 on Sunday February 13, 2022 @06:19PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_register
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Just replying with a web page showing the 80386 has having control registers doesn't imply that MS-DOS used them in any meaningful way.
The MMU is inside the processor. Any operating system running on an 80386 or higher has set registers/tables and gets hardware provided memory management.
Re:The Life of MS-DOS
by shadowofneptune on Sunday February 13, 2022 @09:14PM
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If it uses it. Later versions of DOS did very little with the features the 386 offered, which is why there were MS-DOS extenders.