RE: Capabilities

[Matthew Kirkwood]

On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Greg Haerr wrote:

> : > :         Protected mode stuff. (With Expanded memory support).
> : > 
> : >   We're a ways off from this, but it'd be nice.  I'd like to see
> : > support for > 64k segments.
> : 
> : 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?

And a full 16Mb(!) of address space.

Matthew.