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Possibly I'm misunderstanding your post. In what sense did Windows 95 have protected memory? Even DOS programs could overwrite important Windows addresses, to s
by nonesuchluck 5y ago
Possibly I'm misunderstanding your post. In what sense did Windows 95 have protected memory? Even DOS programs could overwrite important Windows addresses, to say nothing of the convenient win32 APIs MS provided to scribble all over other applications memory space.
- kevingadd 5y agoYeah it was "less unprotected" at best. It was also trivial to deadlock the entire machine with user-mode code (the DirectX system-wide mutex being the most obvious example)
- dblohm7 5y agoDOS programs were run in V86 mode.
- twoodfin 5y agoWindows 95 absolutely had protected memory: Every 32-bit process had its own address space without direct access to any other process’ memory.