From: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: Why protected mode.
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 18:59:29 -0300
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Tarad wrote:
> 
> Started to use djgpp a few weeks ago and I really like it. It's free, not
> to complcated and so on. Now I'm just wondering why is djgpp using
> protected mode (no real knowledge about protected mode). Does it protect my
> programs from crashing? I ask this beacause I'm writing a tiny game library
> to djgpp in nasm and to me it's more complicate when you can't use
> interrupts (no, I don't use all the slow graphic interrupts).
> I know you can do it without interrupts but it seams like unneccesary work
> to me. Excuse my bad english.
	It was done in PMode for 2 main reasons:  Programs are more stable and
crashes produce important information.  Also, you can easily access (idealy)
up to 2 Gigs of RAM (some of it may be virtual).
	Interrupts were still slow in 16-bit mode, they are just slower now. 
Besides, there is really only one interrupt you shouldn't use when doing
graphics, which is the bank-switching interrupt.  All the rest are perfectly
fast enough.

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hen passed char pointers or 'other'
pointers.  My guess is that when given the 'other' (void) pointer, it prints
it's address in hex.

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