Re: Fw: 16-bit bootloader support?

[Seth Goldberg]

Quoting Bogdan, who wrote the following on Thu, 8 Oct 2009:

> I'm sorry for the top-down mail but Yahoo! Mail is gay. No, I don't mean 
> virtual 8086 mode, I mean the 16-bit protected mode - which is 16-bit and 
> not 32-bit. Protected mode was introduced on the Intel 80286 which was still 
> a 16-bit CPU. Protected mode was later extended for 32-bit allowing of 
> course for backward compatibility. Windows 3.1 is a good example of an OS 
> capable of handling 16-bit pmode.
>
> It's not legacy code I'm talking about.


  Do you seriously have an OS you want to boot that starts in 16-bit 
protected mode?  Or is this just an academic question? You're free to add 
support for such a system, but IMHO, its usefulness is dubious, at best.

 --S