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From: gcook@cps3xx.UUCP (Greg Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 80286 protected mode, What on earth is a
Message-ID: <4589@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 89 19:26:43 GMT
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From article <1219@marlin.NOSC.MIL>, by jbjones@marlin.NOSC.MIL (John B. Jones):
> In article <513@nixpbe.UUCP> freiss@nixpbe.UUCP (freiss) writes:
>>
>>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.

Interesting that I just read a blurb in PC Computing (aug 1988) about ten
minutes ago that mentioned this.  It goes as follows:

     The 80286 is capable of multitasking when run in its protectd mode,
     which assures that one application won't corrupt the memory owned 
     by another application.

They also go on to say that this cannot be used int the DOS environment.

That's all I know about it, if anyone can shed any further light, please do.

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