Bogdan wrote: > 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. > > What is the difference between 16-bit and 32-bit protected mode? Is 16-bit protected mode like 32-bit protected mode, not paged mode but with upper 16-bits ignored? What are the benefits of supporting it? > It's not legacy code I'm talking about. > > Cheers, > Bogdan > > > Bogdan wrote: > >> Most probably the developers of GRUB will say that this is useless but >> did anyone think of adding 16-bit protected mode support to the >> Multiboot specification and to GRUB? >> > Which mode do you mean? > protected mode=32-bit mode > You may mean vm8086 mode but it's meant only for compatibility purposes. > As such it's an OS responsibility to set it up when executing legacy code > >> Cheers, >> Bogdan >> >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > >
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