Shameless plug for my https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/beyond-the-1-mb-barrier-i... article from a couple of years ago. You'll find a deep dive on unreal mode (I just learned it's also known as "vodoo mode") and some hands-on code to play with it ;-P
Yep. The microcode in real mode segment loading (as shown in the post) does not set the limit to 64KB. That is why returning to real mode with a large value like 4GB in limit gives you "unreal mode".
After an “incident” with the first astronaut fitted for the device, the UCD’s designations were changed from “Small, Medium, Large” to “Large,” “Extra Large,” and “Extra-Extra Large.”
I knew it. Serious issues that still persists to this day.
The labels L, XL and XXL given in the parent article are more plausible than those from your link. Moreover at your link it is even stated that those given there might be nicknames, not the official designations.
As you say, the essence is the same regardless which were the actual names.
Moreover, while this is a story about males fantasizing themselves as being large, a similar story, but in reverse, is told about the labels used in US female clothes, where, due to the increase in average weight of the population, the larger sizes have been renamed as smaller sizes, because overweight customers were reluctant to buy the clothes labeled as extra-extra-large that they actually needed.
Doesn't that depend on when they acquired the gold and at what price? It has roughly tripled in just 10 years, and increased tenfold since the early 2000s.
Gold is gold. There is no such thing as suspect gold. It can always be subject to a purity test. Those who buy much gold, e.g. Apmex, always do it. The fact that France was able to sell the gold validates that it was gold.
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