Absolute memory on protected mode?

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From: Martin Wink
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1991 20:21

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Can anyone tell me how to access specific hardware memory from
protected mode Windows?

I know that it's done through special selectors or something, and
that they're exported by KERNEL.EXE.

eg an MDA card's memory can be accessed at B000:0000 through KERNEL
export #181: __B000H.  It dowsn't seem to be a function which returns
a pointer to memory, and simply referencing it as if it was a pointer
doesn't work either.

any clues???????
  martin wink...

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Subject: Absolute memory on protected mode?
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Date: 5 Mar 91 20:21:03 GMT
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