From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: far pointers Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: References: <39405DEE DOT 89226F7B AT ccs DOT iitb DOT ernet DOT in> <39415453 DOT 5E434718 AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> <200006100646 DOT JAA13833 AT mailgw1 DOT netvision DOT net DOT il> <394204AD DOT A950D898 AT the_message_body DOT com> <83itvhg9f8 DOT fsf AT mercury DOT bitbucket> <39424E17 DOT 234D50BE AT the_messasge_body DOT com> <833dmjk81d DOT fsf AT mercury DOT bitbucket> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 18 X-Trace: /wLwTamDch6e64c4GH3LH0sU+Gc4xnz29Q6vjL0t6ZVOKFD/F4R8qXzTirWe//wYQYhUUXIg3wJB!9xrmb7kugMxOGIAnnBclJzHkfAVOf9did/NKBE6nU83M3T1E4Lx1sUyWHLrG8xA9qJBXlenW0Ea8!JexK X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 06:01:49 GMT Distribution: world Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 06:01:49 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On 11 Jun 2000 18:22:22 -0700, Nate Eldredge wrote: >However, I believe there is some standard memory manager (perhaps >EMM386) that causes DOS to run in V86 rather than real mode. You're right. It's emm386 or any other 386 memory manager that provides extended memory through the LIM EMS expanded memory interface. V86's MMU mapping is almost necessary to do this (the 286 alternative, copying on page-in calls, is _really_ slow). -- Damian Yerrick "I refuse to listen to those who refuse to listen to reason." See the whole sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html This is McAfee VirusScan. Add these two lines to your signature to prevent the spread of signature viruses. http://www.mcafee.com/