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From: phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: Loading Appl SW that requires Protect Mode
Message-ID: <1990Jun8.181622.16005@bach.amd.com>
Date: 8 Jun 90 18:16:22 GMT
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In article <1990Jun7.150839.21981@cbnewsk.att.com> markg@cbnewsk.att.com (mark.r.gibaldi) writes:
|Windows 3.0 runs your 386 in protected mode.  There can only be one protected
|mode on a 386.  In order to run protected mode software under Windows 3.0,
|you have to run Windows in real mode like so "win /r".  This is a limitation
|of the processor.  Until there are "virtual *protected* mode machines"
|available on an Intel Processor, things will be this way.

Not so, once DPMI is approved and implemented, everything will work
together. The history of the previous standard, VCPI, indicates
that it's in everyone's interest to have a good standard and vendors
will quickly comply.

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