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PCI phased out? (Announce)

posted by roytam, 22.02.2011, 04:26

> >
> > 16-bit covers real mode (8086 - MS-DOS) and pmode (286 - OS/2 1.x), two
> > entirely different things (though they both use segmentation).
>
> > I've heard conflicting reports (Ross Ridge, Bart Oldemann), so I'm not
> > entirely sure if the cpu (long mode) itself or just the 64-bit OSes
> (Win64,
> > Linux64) refuse to support one or both of those.
>
> I've searched about this, and long mode supports 16-bit protected mode, but
> not real mode.
>
> There are also some hints that this goes for pure application code only,
> and that operating system (and I assume extenders) level code might not
> work (e.g. the unavailability of certain TSS features in long mode).
>
> Since afaik win16 apps are pmode, they may indeed run technically, but
> win64 doesn't support it.
>
> Afaik Linux never had support for 16-bit pmode.
How about this?
http://v86-64.sourceforge.net/

 

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