Re: 32-bit address, 16-bit mode

[Ronald G Minnich]

On 17 Jul 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> The problem as I recall it is that in real mode the segment limit is set
> to 64K.  As I recall the only way to make this work is to go into 32 bit mode
> load a segment register with a larger segment limit, go to 16 bit mode and
> don't reload it.  That as I recall is ``bigreal'' mode.

I just gave up and went to protected mode.

ron