Re: Capabilities

[Alan Cox]

> : You then need a 386. 64K is the limit. The original work I did was designed
> : to be easy to run in 286 protected mode once you got rid of any BIOS interfaces.
> :
>       Remind me - what then is the benefit of protected mode?  Merely
> separate address spaces?

You get two things in 286 protected mode

1.      You take exceptions if you try and go out of your segments
2.      You get 16Mbytes of addressable ram