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   Rick C. Hodgin to Robert Wessel   
   Re: Methods to manually reboot system wi   
   19 Jul 18 10:56:12   
   
   From: rick.c.hodgin@nospicedham.gmail.com   
      
   On 7/19/2018 10:26 AM, Robert Wessel wrote:   
   > You can force a triple fault.  That won't work on the 8086/8, of   
   > course.  Not sure about the '286 either.   
      
   It does work on 286.  It's the only way we had to get back into real   
   mode after entering protected mode, as the 286 had no ability to re-   
   enter real mode after entering protected mode.  This led to the new   
   CR0 setting on the 80386.   
      
   --   
   Rick C. Hodgin   
      
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