Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 11:35:12 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: real mode & protected mode
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Florian X wrote:

> PROTECTED MODE:
> 
> You can use all ram and flat memory, have no interrupts, so you need an DPMI
> surver which switch back to realmode to start a interrupt.

Not true: protected mode can use interrupts exactly as real mode can.
The only difference is that instead of the real-mode Interrupt Vector
Table, where each entry is a real-mode seg:off address of the
interrupt service routine, in protected mode there's the Interrupt
Descriptor Table, where each entry is the selector:offset address of
an interrupt gate.