From:	"Al Amzeen (Alexandr Amzin)" <amzeen AT mtu-net DOT ru>
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Subject:	Re: crazy question!
Date:	Thu, 11 May 2000 23:10:55 +0400
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Greetings, Prashant TR <prashant_tr AT yahoo DOT com>! You wrote:
> > What do you need this for?  There might be a way of doing it, but it
> > only works in some specially-set environments, so it is not clear
> > whether it's good enough for what you have in mind.
>
> I tried something similar for a diagnostic that I was writing. It was
> supposed to do the walking 0s and 1s test on the entire physical memory.
> But it wasn't worth the all the pain. The DPMI lies about physical memory
> size most of the time, so you need to do some extra work to find out the
> memory size. Plus problems I mentioned in the other mail.
>
> Otherwise, I don't think anyone could do some useful by just reading
> arbitrary portions of the memory.

Well, we can use OS loader for protected mode and then multiprocess kernel
on DJGPP for tasks-in-RAM execution. Dirty one example, but this one should
work. :)

ps. Terrible, isn't it? :^)

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