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> > As far as the segment registers, we do an explicit save of them already
> > when we switch into VM86 mode, so it should be necessary to save them
> > twice.
> 
> VM86 mode is only used to enable APM; after that we are using the 
> 32-bit protected mode interface.

Ahh...  In the old code, we used to explicitly push/pop all of the
registers.  Do we still do that?


Nate


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