Your CPU still boots up pretending to be a 1978 Intel chip, and Intel gave up on removing it

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by Raspberry Pi / Arduino / Adafruit at 13 Oct, 14:50 UTC

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 says its 64-bit designs come out of reset in the same state as the original 8086, and AMD says its chips…

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• T1Your CPU still boots up pretending to be a 1978 Intel chip, and Intel gave up on removing itRaspberry Pi / Arduino / Adafruit13 Oct, 14:50