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Re:The Linux 2.5, Ruby 1.9 and Python 3 release management a... by bdonlan on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @12:22AM (#13261442)
There's also the option to transition to 32-bit protected mode and then go to virtual 8086 mode from there. Or to simply emulate the entire CPU. It was probably just a cost-benefit trade-off in the end.
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Re:The Linux 2.5, Ruby 1.9 and Python 3 release management a... by raverbashing on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @04:10AM (#13262118)
Yeah

Wasting silicon to emulate some 30+ y.o. architecture makes no sense

Intel/AMD could thing about doing a "pure" x64/x32 processor that starts in 32-bit mode mode and leaves everything else to an emulation layer (this could be present on the UEFI only for those customers that are interested in it)

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