From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: far pointers
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 06:01:49 GMT
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On 11 Jun 2000 18:22:22 -0700, Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
wrote:

>However, I believe there is some standard memory manager (perhaps
>EMM386) that causes DOS to run in V86 rather than real mode.

You're right.  It's emm386 or any other 386 memory manager that
provides extended memory through the LIM EMS expanded memory
interface.  V86's MMU mapping is almost necessary to do this (the
286 alternative, copying on page-in calls, is _really_ slow).

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