Note that this was apparently a decision made in 2001. If you tried this in 1988, when 2Mb was an enormous machine, and you said to users "Yeah, only half of that will be allocated to user programs", that's not gonna fly.
No segments, no "Conventional memory 640KB" or other such cruft.
Note that this was apparently a decision made in 2001. If you tried this in 1988, when 2Mb was an enormous machine, and you said to users "Yeah, only half of that will be allocated to user programs", that's not gonna fly.