From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,caabf5265fad78e5 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.velia.net!news.tu-darmstadt.de!news.belwue.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail From: Albrecht =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=E4fer?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: unsigned type Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:22:26 +0200 Organization: 1&1 Internet AG Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: p54bca2ca.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: online.de 1247326211 11414 84.188.162.202 (11 Jul 2009 15:30:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:30:11 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090403 SeaMonkey/1.1.16 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 Hamster-Pg/1.25.2.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6987 Date: 2009-07-11T17:22:26+02:00 List-Id: Hibou57 (Yannick Duch�ne) schrieb: > On 29 juin, 10:00, a...@anon.org (anon) wrote: >> But most 80286/80386 code using protective mode must have a >> major rewrite if updating to use the Core 2 dual/quad or Core i7. > What is projective mode please ? He meant protected mode. The native operating mode (meaning the one they were supposed to be in most of the time) of all processors from the 80286 to the Pentium 4 and Athlons. Succeded by Long Mode of the AMD64 architecture and whichever 64-bit mode the Itaniums have. Albrecht