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real mode on power up. Real mode functioned virtually identically to the 8086 and 8088, allowing the vast majority of existing software for those processors to run unmodified on the newer 286. Real mode also served as a more basic mode to set up and bootstrap into protected mode. To access the extended functionality of the 286, the operating system would set up some tables in memory that controlled memory access in protected mode, set the

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