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The following is a quote from bgn on 2003-4-30 9:20:54:
Processors above 386 have three working modes, namely real mode, protected mode, and virtual 86 mode.
DOS 622 works in real mode (8086)
Windows works in protected mode. To be compatible with 8086 in protected mode, Intel provides the virtual 86 mode
so that under the Windows platform, both 32-bit programs and MS-DOS programs can be run.
MS-DOS programs in protected mode run in virtual 86 mode, but the memory addressing method is the same as that of 8086,
which is also 1M.