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by userbinator 18 days ago
Early Macs used the upper byte of 32-bit pointers for other data:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Mac_OS_memory_manageme...

...and resulted in some models having a backwards-compatibility mode not too dissimilar to the PC's A20 gate, although for only a short period of time.