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- From: Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org>
- Subject: Re: BC 3.0 and 386's
- Organization: ZOOiD BBS
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 09:06:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.090651.24074@zooid.guild.org>
- References: <1992Aug11.084512.7600@zooid.guild.org> <BstqKG.Fu5@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
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- dstamp@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Dave Stampe-Psy+Eng) writes:
- >*Sigh* Obviously you don't understand 386 protected mode programming.
- >The selector is *not* a segment. To get a null selector in real mode
- >(which the IDE runs in) you must:
-
- Yah, I know, but I tought the IDE ran in protected mode. I haven't seen
- Borland 3.x, but I thought they got rid of the real mode IDE and just went
- with the protected mode one. Could it be something else like your XMS
- driver?
-
- >And I doubt anyone would load 0 into _segment_ registers in protected mode
- >except maliciously.
-
- I seriously doubt it was done maliciously, more likely just negligently.
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- Ross Ridge
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