> It’s the hardware task switching features that the 386 introduced that it requires Nope. 8086 and 80286 multitasked fine. It was memory management hardware

> It’s the hardware task switching features that the 386 introduced that it requires Nope. 8086 and 80286 multitasked fine. It was memory management hardware that came in with the 80386. You need that for virtual memory.