Re: DOS and the future

[Or Botton]

On Mon, 04 Sep 2000 23:29:33 +0200 (CEST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) 
wrote:

> They use the protected mode. (memory limited to 4 GB afaik)
> The only processor with a 640 K limit is the intel 8086 and 8088.

> All other processors can additionally to their real operating mode
> (protected) emulate the 8086 with its memory limit (real mode)

Which brings up the following questions:
1)So what's preventing people from making a DOS that will initially
  run in protected mode? (besides the 286- support.)

2)And what about the programs that use "protected mode extenders"?


                                       Or Botton
                                       [EMAIL PROTECTED]

"Truth is stranger then fiction, since fiction has to make sense."
-----------------------------
http://members.xoom.com/dsdp/