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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 15:18:15 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Leath Muller <leathm AT solwarra DOT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au>
cc: firewind <firewind AT metroid DOT dyn DOT ml DOT org>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DJGPP+Allegro: Porting from DOS to Linux. Easy or Hard!?!
In-Reply-To: <199710122313.JAA25802@solwarra.gbrmpa.gov.au>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.971013151754.11407V-100000@is>
MIME-Version: 1.0

On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Leath Muller wrote:

> The CPU itself can run in either Protected Mode or Real Mode.

There's also the V86 mode, which behaves as real mode as far as
addressing is concerned, but it enables memory mapping (so logical
address != physical address), and some instructions cause an
exception, like in PM.

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