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From: jbjones@marlin.NOSC.MIL (John B. Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: 80286 protected mode, What on earth is a
Keywords: 80286, protected mode
Message-ID: <1219@marlin.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 13 Sep 89 17:45:26 GMT
Reply-To: jbjones@marlin.nosc.mil.UUCP (John B. Jones)
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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In article <513@nixpbe.UUCP> freiss@nixpbe.UUCP (freiss) writes:
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>I'm looking for book references and / or source code snippets of
>programs for the 80286 in protected mode.

What is protected mode?  Is there an unprotected mode?  It sounds like
some programming term, but what's it for?
Thanks in advance for turning some lights on.

john
jbjones@marlin.nosc.mil.UUCP