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Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 05:25:48 -0500
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From: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
Subject: Re: Is that bug ?
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At 11:48 AM 2/7/99 +0200, you wrote:
>Somebody whose opinions I trust told me that if Windows included null 
>page protection, gobs of Windows own code would immediately begin 
>crashing.  So there might be some reason why MS doesn't fix that.
>
>(In case you didn't know: when Windows starts up, its kernel loads into 
>the system VM as a DPMI client.  Imagine what would happen with null page 
>protection...)

Windows' kernel constantly dereferences null???
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