80386 Protection - Small Things Retro
Hacker News
February 24, 2026
I'm building an 80386-compatible core in SystemVerilog and blogging the process. In the previous post, we looked at how the 386 reuses one barrel shifter for all shift and rotate instructions. This time we move from real mode to protected and talk about protection.
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Originally published on Hacker News on 2/24/2026