On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, CyberPsychotic wrote:
>I was coding some kind of emulator like thing and came to the need to run
>a piece of binary code in 8086 mode. (no DOS ints. a coulpa of BIOS ones),
>I 've read in some book that it could be possble to switch 486 processor
>to run certain task in 8086 mode I wonder if that's possible to do this
>from within a C code? (actually I don't remember what book I have seen it
Yes, 386+ CPUs have so called vm86-mode. For details how to do it see
eg. Intel Pentium Programmer's Manual and Dosemu. Also man vm86 may help.
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