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by immibis
159 days ago
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There isn't a separate 8086 core in every x64 core. The whole core has "if/then" spaghetti logic scattered throughout to alter its behaviour based on being in 16-bit mode. At best, they might have been able to confine the needed logic patches to the instruction-decoding front end. |
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