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QHow many different modes can the 80386 processor run in?

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The 80386 processor can run in three different modes: the real mode, the protected mode, and a virtual mode. In real mode, the size of each segment is limited to 64 Kbytes, while in protected mode, the largest segment size is increased to 4 Gbytes. The virtual mode is a special version of the protected mode that allows a virtual machine to run on the processor.

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