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ChuckMcM on April 6, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Early 80386 CPUs and their errata

Sure you could you just wrote into NVRAM the magic cookie "Hey I'm really coming out of protected mode" and pulled reset low. (sarcasm of course)

I worked at Intel at the time and this "hack" really bothered me as a young engineer.

yuhong on April 6, 2015 [–]

BTW, I read that you were involved in testing early 80386 chips. I have an email sent to you asking for more information on 80386 steppings.

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