Editing X86 virtualization (section)

==== Virtual 8086 mode ====
{{Main|Virtual 8086 mode}}

Because the [[Intel 80286]] could not run concurrent DOS applications well by itself in protected mode, Intel introduced the [[virtual 8086 mode]] in their [[Intel 80386|80386]] chip, which offered virtualized 8086 processors on the 386 and later chips. Hardware support for virtualizing the protected mode itself, however, became available 20 years later.<ref>{{cite web |last=Yager |first=Tom |url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/2664741/computer-hardware/sending-software-to-do-hardware-s-job.html |title=Sending software to do hardware's job &#124; Hardware - InfoWorld |publisher=Images.infoworld.com |date=2004-11-05 |access-date=2014-01-08 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018133427/http://www.infoworld.com/article/2664741/computer-hardware/sending-software-to-do-hardware-s-job.html |archive-date=2014-10-18}}</ref>