TH>What is the purpose of the FS and GS registers?
BM>I think I know what they stand for:
BM>FS = Far Selector
BM>GS = Global Selector
BM>And I think they may have something to do with protected mode, but
BM>I don't know what... I haven't really done much PM programming...
Well, I think your response is more on the mark than most of the
others. [grin]
After all, the 16-bit model segmentation is limited to 1Mb
addressing, I never looked into how those folks at Intel did the
work-around.
thanks...
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