Im sorry to report an error in your artickle :)

[John Flood]

http://www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios/

Quote:
PC resets, and jumps to 0xffff:0 (remember, at reset, the Pentium is
                             emulating a 20-year-old microprocessor, the
16-bit 8086). This
                             address is in NVRAM
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As you should know, and i'm shure you do.
8086 was a 8-bit cpu
16-bit come with the 80286.

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