I'm not sure exactly where the term comes from, but I've seen people use it to refer to doing the same thing on Linux, too. (IIRC, the code segments for protect

I'm not sure exactly where the term comes from, but I've seen people use it to refer to doing the same thing on Linux, too. (IIRC, the code segments for protected mode and long mode also happen to be the same on Windows and Linux. Not sure why exactly.)