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From: ppa@hpldola.HP.COM (Paul P. Austgen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 80286 protected mode, What on earth is a
Message-ID: <11250097@hpldola.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Sep 89 16:52:23 GMT
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Protected mode is where the full address space of the 80286 is
used.  DOS does not run the processor in this mode, although note
that certain programs such as VDISK can switch into it to address
extended memory.