Subject: Re: FS & GS
To: Lennart Augustsson <augustss@cs.chalmers.se>
From: John Brezak <brezak@apollo.hp.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/06/1994 09:27:07
> >From some earlier mail (I think) that I've deleted I understood that
> the FS&GS registers are not available to user programs.
> This is very unfortunate since the Wine Windows emulator relies
> on being able to use them.
> Would it be easy to allow them?
>
> -- Lennart
Why do you think that Wine requires the use of FS and GS ? Windows programs are
'286 programs. The 80286 didn't have an FS and GS - right ?
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