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    |  | Author: bkenwright - Building a Mini OS from Scratch (Soon.) |  |    
  
    | Tut-1- Interrupts are our friends Tut-2- Loading our program from a floppy! Tut-3- Protected Mode? Tut-4- Mini OS Tut-5- Soon.... |  
  
    |  | Author: bkenwright - Understanding Protected Mode (Its not 'Real') |  |    When the latest INTEL CPU's where created, it was important to 
always make them backward compatable.  I mean your new CPU will do 
everything your old one will plus more!  So the new CPU's would still start 
in Real mode, and still do 8 and 16 bit operations even though that would be a 
waste.  But they also offered Protected Mode!  Pure 32 CPU and added 
instructions, faster operations etc.  How you go about harnising and most 
of all understanding this crazy thing, is what we are going to do here!   
 
  
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    |  | Author: bkenwright -Inline Assembly |  |      Misc External Docs Reading/Writing Harddisk 
directly with pure asm 
NASM vs MASM |