From: Charles Hannum (mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu)
Date: 12/23/92


From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT [BUG in 0.99] Re: [ANNOUNCE]: linux version 0.99
Date: 23 Dec 1992 10:16:48 GMT


In article <20367@ksr.com> zdenek@ksr.com (Zdenek Radouch) writes:
>
> Also, why does the init code run in 16-bit mode?

The device drivers are not yet loaded, and it needs the BIOS to load
the kernel.

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