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Foone🏳️‍⚧️

and that'd make sense if only the lower 4 bits of the segment were used.

but all bits are used. They just add the segment and the offset together, after bitshifting the segment over by 4.

So the linear address of AAAA:BBBB is AAAA*16+BBBB.