> >I was coding some kind of emulator like thing and came to the need to run
> >a piece of binary code in 8086 mode. (no DOS ints. a coulpa of BIOS ones),
> >I 've read in some book that it could be possble to switch 486 processor
> >to run certain task in 8086 mode I wonder if that's possible to do this
> >from within a C code? (actually I don't remember what book I have seen it
>
> Yes, 386+ CPUs have so called vm86-mode. For details how to do it see
> eg. Intel Pentium Programmer's Manual and Dosemu. Also man vm86 may help.
yep. Thanks. probably vm86 is what I actually need. I will have a look in
dosemu code for the examples how to use it. (vm86 man page is too 'short',
only few words and a coupla of structs). Well, thanks alot anyway, your
pointers helped alot.
the best
Fyodor
