(place) by Magenta Sat Nov 13 1999 at 9:55:39
The data segment is generally for storage of global variables, but is also for the destination in string operations such as REP STOSx and REP MOVSx, as well as floating-point operations such as FSTP. The other segments are cs (code), es ('extra,' used as source in string operations and to stave off segment register starvation), and fs and gs (second/third 'extra' segments, on the 80386 and higher).

If Intel had done bigger paragraph sizes, x86 real mode wouldn't be so crappy.

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