This is a very PC-centric way of looking at things. The 68K processors did not have a concept of protected mode. It just had user mode and supervisor mode[1]

This is a very PC-centric way of looking at things. The 68K processors did not have a concept of protected mode. It just had user mode and supervisor mode[1] [1]: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/2784/how-did-the-original-apple-macintosh-and-atari-st-use-protected-mode/2786 https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/2784/how-...