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 In This Chapter
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     This chapter provides basic information about protected mode.  It covers
     the following topics:

     .  Real-mode addressing vs. protected-mode addressing

     .  16-bit, segmented, protected-mode addressing

     .  Segment descriptors on 80286 and 80386 (or greater) machines

     .  Protected-mode programming restrictions