On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 12:23:06PM +0530, Ketan Mukadam wrote: > > Hi all, > > I just have a small query. I am actually not sure whether this is the correct > place to ask or not. > > My query is : What is the actual use of Real-Mode of the Intel processors with > regard to current operating systems? None. It's useless to all but DOS, so it's needed for doze 95 and 98, not 2k or nt as they are pure 32 bit, aparently Real mode is used for low level bios interrupts to find out stuff about the system and also load the OS from the media, which can't be done from pmode because intel suck. -- Mark Zealey (aka JALH on irc.openprojects.net: #zealos and many more) mark@zealos.org; mark@itsolve.co.uk UL++++>$ G!>(GCM/GCS/GS/GM) dpu? s:-@ a16! C++++>$ P++++>+++++$ L+++>+++++$ !E---? W+++>$ !w--- r++ !t---?@ !X---? !R- !tv b+ G+++ e>+++++ !h++* r!-- y-- -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
