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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DPMI incorporation...
Message-ID: <19961231.163855.4983.5.chambersb@juno.com>
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From: chambersb AT juno DOT com (Benjamin D Chambers)
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 19:35:29 EST

On Mon, 30 Dec 1996 15:32:53 -0600 (CST) "Colin W. Glenn"
<cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org> writes:
>On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Mark Habersack wrote:
>> And what about the 0x0602 -- 0x0604 and 0x0702, 0x0703 functions? 
>The 
><...>
>> 286-compliant servers would have to implement them. But how? 286 
>> hardware does not support pages.
>
>Hold on a minute here, I'm under the impression that the only 
>difference
>between 286 & 386 is the the segment descriptor structure was enhanced 

And 32-bit architecture was added, and several commands were added, and
some commands were sped up (incredibly) while others became slower, and
the prefetch fetches 4 bytes at a time, and....
:)

...Chambers

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