Quoting Bogdan, who wrote the following on Thu, 8 Oct 2009:
I'm sorry for the top-down mail but Yahoo! Mail is gay. No, I don't mean
virtual 8086 mode, I mean the 16-bit protected mode - which is 16-bit and
not 32-bit. Protected mode was introduced on the Intel 80286 which was still
a 16-bit CPU. Protected mode was later extended for 32-bit allowing of
course for backward compatibility. Windows 3.1 is a good example of an OS
capable of handling 16-bit pmode.
It's not legacy code I'm talking about.
Do you seriously have an OS you want to boot that starts in 16-bit
protected mode? Or is this just an academic question? You're free to add
support for such a system, but IMHO, its usefulness is dubious, at best.
--S
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