On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, SONE Takeshi wrote: > CPU starts with last 16 byte of address space. > On a 386 or later it's FFFFFFF:0000?? CPU starts out in "big real mode" at 0xffff0000, and most BIOSes (linuxbios too) do a jump cs:ip to 0xf000:0x0, which pops the CPU into the old 8086 real mode. kron