flipper wrote:
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:44:27 -0400, "Tom Del Rosso"
wrote:

The protected model was there since the 286. There's no excuse for
not implementing it properly.

Of course there was. 9x windows is a GUI on top of DOS and there is
just no way that's going to implement protected mode. That's what NT
was for.

I think it could have been done, because DOS could have been treated like
its boot loader, and the DOS code that had been executed didn't preclude
entry to protected mode. Resident TSRs could just be wiped, since nothing
stopped you from turning off the power at any time.


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