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From: geof@imagen.UUCP (Geoffrey Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Switching from Protected to Real Mode
Message-ID: <1387@imagen.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 20:25:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: imagen.1387
Posted: Wed Aug 19 20:25:49 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 09:39:31 EDT
Organization: IMAGEN Corporation, Santa Clara, CA 95052-8101
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Keywords: 286

Is there a way (I deduce from recent net messages that there is) for a
program to switch from 286 protected mode back to real address mode,
without rebooting the machine?  
	
I understand that the only way to tell the '286 to switch is via
hardware reset.  I think this means that you lose control of the
processor.  Does MS-DOS have a way to accomodate such a "hot boot"?

Don't RAM disks for the PC-AT have to do this?

- Geof Cooper
  IMAGEN
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