where is ioperm

[David Corrim]

Hi,

usually Win NT and thelike (XP too, surprise) do not allow
direct hardware or memory access -- only when executing
DOS-16 binaries. However, the "out" assembly instruction
and directly reading memory like "short int x = *(short
int *)0x400" let the program exit.
Is there any mechanism I need to trigger so that Windows
allows me to do such things? (Under linucs they call it
ioperm and iopl).
Any ideas?


- David