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Oxide and Friends

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Foyball - A Very Strange Architecture

x86 is a very strange architecture. I mean, that basically starts in 16 bit real mode. It does the whole little sort of amoeba evolving into a dog dance. But yeah, you have to turn on protected mode and give it a 32 bit mode. And then you have to load the page tables into the MMU andinitialize that. You have toTurn on all the caches and make sure that memory protection actually works.

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