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It's worse than that, you can set up 32-bit segments in 32-bit mode, then switch back to 16-bit mode and have them do vaguely sensible things .... This wasn't

It's worse than that, you can set up 32-bit segments in 32-bit mode, then switch back to 16-bit mode and have them do vaguely sensible things .... This wasn't defined by Intel, but Windows went on to depend on this feature in order to boot (to access PCI) (I was once involved in an x86 clone project)

EvanAnderson 7y ago
For anybody who is curious, this is colloquially referred-to as "unreal mode": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_mode https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_mode