Re: Protected mode/Real mode switching

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From: oren alex
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1991 16:31

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In article <37390009@hpopd.pwd.hp.com> dcc@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Daniel Creswell) writes:

>Now the bad news. The only way to switch back to real mode is to use the reset
>op. i.e. Just like you'd powered off and on. I dunno how it's done technically
>but I imagine you wedge a vector and once reset is achieved your code gets
>control back. At this point now doubt you'd wanna restore register's etc.
>
>Hope thats some help - I guess a Microsoft programmer on the Windows team'd be
>perfect for this question.

Wasn't there an undocumented "load all" function?
Could it help?

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Subject: Re: Protected mode/Real mode switching
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