Re: DOS and the future

[Ben Hood]

On 5 Sep 2000, at 9:45, Joerg Dietze wrote:

> AFAIK, You'll have linear memory, if You switch at least to protected
> mode, which is available with  286 or better.

But Protected Mode on the 286 is not very good.You can't switch 
back to Real Mode without a reboot...

The 386 was Intel's first move towards a (very) powerful computer.

It supported a lot of instructions and other features to provide pre-
emptive multitasking, addressing more memory, as well as a lot of 
speed etc.


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Ben Hood
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