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> Imagine if that lone guy at Microsoft didn't figure out trick with 286 protected mode that allowed Windows to survive and wasn't heard by top management - we
by sluukkonen 10y ago
> Imagine if that lone guy at Microsoft didn't figure out trick with 286 protected mode that allowed Windows to survive and wasn't heard by top management - we would all be running OS/2 10 now.
I haven't heard this story before. Got a link?
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- estebank 10y agoGoogle turned this up: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/murrays/2006/12/07/saving-windows-from-the-os2-bulldozer/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/murrays/2006/12/07/saving-w...
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- f393921 10y agoI believe this is it: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2005/02/08/faster-syscall-trap-redux/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2005/02/08/fa... The IBM way required IBM BIOS and an absurdly long time (as I recalled it was hundreds of milliseconds, not just milliseconds) to re-enter real mode. The motivation was to be able to run DOS real-mode programs as well as protected mode programs.