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Re:80286 ATX mainboard based on the IBM 5170 AT PC by lproven on Thursday November 14, 2024 @08:58AM (#42136179)
> It’s the hardware task switching features that the 386 introduced that it requires

Nope.

8086 and 80286 multitasked fine.

It was memory management hardware that came in with the 80386. You need that for virtual memory.

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