Question:
Where does the Real mode on the CPU come from?
Answer:
The original 8086, which only had 1 MB of memory. This megabyte is split into low memory for IRQ tables, application memory and high memory. Source: CoolInterview.com
Real mode means the processor only can address right 1st 1 mb of memory space from the primary memory.Processors belonging to the 8086 family(even p4 also) follows the real mode to perform their applications. Source: CoolInterview.com
Answered by: Nilanjan Ganguly | Date: 4/22/2010
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