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Subject: Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20
To: hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 01:26:57 +0000 (GMT)
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> Good question.  The whole thing makes me nervous... in fact, perhaps we
> should really consider using the BIOS INT 15h interrupt to enter
> protected mode?

>From my experience with BIOS authors, only if Windows 98 uses the same function
with the same arguments, the same stuff top of stack and the same segment
registers loaded ;)


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