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Nate Eldredge wrote:
> I may have been mistaken.  However, I believe there is some standard
> memory manager (perhaps EMM386) that causes DOS to run in V86 rather
Yes, QEMM & EMM386 make dos run in V86.

> than real mode.  But without it, DOS runs in real mode, and DJGPP
> programs run in protected mode.

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