Talk:Far pointer

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[edit] Segment-offset address pairs that point to the same address

"Comparison and arithmetic on far pointers are problematic: there are potentially sixteen different segment-offset address pairs that point to the same address."

Are you sure it isn't potentially 4096? There's a 12 bit overlap between the segment and the offset. 2¹² = 4096. Egriffin (talk) 18:00, 11 April 2008 (UTC)