Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!ukma!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ysub!psuvm!barilvm!bimacs!orenalex From: orenalex@bimacs.BITNET (oren alex) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Protected mode/Real mode switching Message-ID: <3199@bimacs.BITNET> Date: 24 Apr 91 16:31:00 GMT References: <1991Apr15.160333.8107@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <37390009@hpopd.pwd.hp.com> Reply-To: orenalex@bimacs.UUCP (oren alex) Organization: Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Lines: 14 In article <37390009@hpopd.pwd.hp.com> dcc@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Daniel Creswell) writes: >Now the bad news. The only way to switch back to real mode is to use the reset >op. i.e. Just like you'd powered off and on. I dunno how it's done technically >but I imagine you wedge a vector and once reset is achieved your code gets >control back. At this point now doubt you'd wanna restore register's etc. > >Hope thats some help - I guess a Microsoft programmer on the Windows team'd be >perfect for this question. Wasn't there an undocumented "load all" function? Could it help?