Hello Peter!
Saturday April 12 1997, Peter Louwen writes to Tim Hutzler:
 TH>> What is the purpose of the FS and GS registers?
 PL> The Farout and Groovy Segments exist solely to keep people wondering 
hat
 PL> their purpose is. And what their names mean. However, if you actually 
load
 PL> a value into them, your CPU will explode. At the very least.
:-) hehe..
The names "FS" and "GS", came naturaly when the other seg-regs were CS, DS, 
ES.
 PL> Actually, they're a bit like ES: non-dedicated segment registers.
Do you know if FS and GS have any purpose in protected mode, or could I 
reely
manipulate them as two extra 16bit registers?? (Watcom C++ with 
4GW/DPMI)..
Regards Morten Perriard
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