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From: mwilley@pcocd2.intel.com (Mark Willey - PCD)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: More Details on the 386BSD Release 1.0 CD-ROM
Date: 25 May 1994 15:18:34 GMT
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In article <jmonroyCqCrwC.L5K@netcom.com>, jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes:
> Nakata Ken (CS major) (kxn3796@hertz.njit.edu) wrote:
> : "The Virtual Machine subsystem" "not available on all 386 chips"?
> : What *exactly* are you referring to, by "the Virtual Machine
> : subsystem"?
> :
> 	Please read the i386 data guide.

I think he's referring to the "Virtual 8086 Environment". (ie running virtual
mode under protected mode -- not real mode)

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(For more info on the mode I think he's talking about, look at your handy
Intel "Microprocessors, Vol I, 1994" Databook, page 1-349.

Mark
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