Lindy Mayfield wrote:
Hasn't there been hardware memory protection since the 80286? Of course, it
has to be switched from real mode to protected mode. The common GP fault error
messages in Windows are hardware triggered, no?
Lindy
IIRC only really protected mode protected the OS, it really did not
protect one task from another.
GPF's can be gererated by either hardware or software detecting various
issues.
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