Your CPU still boots up pretending to be a 1978 Intel chip, and Intel gave up on removing it
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Your CPU still boots up pretending to be a 1978 Intel chip, and Intel gave up on removing it
Adam Conway, writing at XDA Developers, lays out how every x86 processor still starts in real mode, the 16-bit execution environment of the Intel 8086 from June 1978. Intel’s documentation sa…
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