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conflictLOW2026-05-04 23:46 UTC

LLM386: borrowing a 1990s idea for managing LLM context

In 1989, DOS had a 640 KB ceiling on conventional memory. EMM386 used the 80386 CPU's address-translation hardware to page chunks of a much larger memory space through a small fixed window inside that 640 KB. Programs that asked nicely got effectively unlimited memory through a peephole, by paging o

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