Wow it was 20 years ago the memory protection bit a.k.a. NX was seen in 8086 en 80286, after it is was lost. Intel needed 20 years to find thair new implementation of the bit. the OP-code was always available in the intrstuction set of the intel 80x86 procesor for compatability reasons and never used in the real world.
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Wow it was 20 years ago the memory protection bit a.k.a. NX was seen in 8086 en 80286, after it is was lost. Intel needed 20 years to find thair new implementation of the bit. the OP-code was always available in the intrstuction set of the intel 80x86 procesor for compatability reasons and never used in the real world.