Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 15:36:16 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On 11 Jun 2000, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> "Alexei A. Frounze" <see_below AT the_messasge_body DOT com> writes:
> 
> > Nate Eldredge wrote:
> 
> > > AFAIK, this is not true.  If you boot DOS without himem.sys or other
> > > memory manager, then run a DJGPP program using cwsdpmi, you can do
> > > disk I/O and everything else without ever entering V86 mode.  You just
> > > go backa and forth between protected and real modes.
> > 
> > You're wrong. 
> > 1. HIMEM.SYS has nothing about V86. It just allows to access extended ram
> > (above 1MB mark).
> 
> I may have been mistaken.  However, I believe there is some standard
> memory manager (perhaps EMM386) that causes DOS to run in V86 rather
> than real mode.  But without it, DOS runs in real mode, and DJGPP
> programs run in protected mode.

You are not mistaken, Nate.