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In article <BIANCO.90Jul30163028@daffodil.cs.odu.edu> bianco@cs.odu.edu
(David J. Bianco) writes:

>How does one kick the 286 chip into protected mode? I'm using TC++ (but
>only, as of yet, in TC mode, not TC++ mode), and was hoping to get out
>of this segmented architecture via the protected mode. Since I dont
>really care if my program will run in the background of a multitasker
>or anything, I thought this would be a good solution.  

I don't get it. If you set the processor in protected mode, you kill
Dos (Are you using Dos ?) and unless you use fancy tricks as the ones used
by Windows and the like, any interrupt service will not be carried away 
by DOS. Thus, you're program won't be able to read a file or send a
character to the printer etc...

Unless you have an operating system that supports the protected mode,
you can't do much of it... but then again, I may be wrong.

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