Herman Schonfeld wrote in a message to Tim Esselens:
 HS> Protected mode is a flat memory model. There are so
 HS> segmentation limits so therefore you can allocate as much
 HS> memory as you want to an object. 
This is not correct. In a flat memory model there are still segment 
registers. The values in those registers however rarely change during program 
execution. 
In a 16-bit world this is also possible, but is usually referred to as the 
tiny memory model. 
Protected mode however is a complete different piece of cake. It has nothing 
to do with 32 or 16-bit (It is possible in both) but with the interpretation 
of the values in the segment registers. In real mode these register are 
actually a part of the actual address. In protected mode the values in the 
segment registers are used as index in a descriptor table, which contains the 
actual segment adress information AND the access rights for the segment 
(hence the name protected mode). 
After all, under Windows 3.1 I awfully often got a General Protection 
Failure, which is a good indication of protected mode .
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