HelpPC 2.10 Quick Reference Utility Copyright 1991 David Jurgens

                    MSW - Machine Status Word (286+ only)


     │31│30-5│4│3│2│1│0│  Machine Status Word
       │   │  │ │ │ │ └──── Protection Enable (PE)
       │   │  │ │ │ └───── Math Present (MP)
       │   │  │ │ └────── Emulation (EM)
       │   │  │ └─────── Task Switched (TS)
       │   │  └──────── Extension Type (ET)
       │   └────────── Reserved
       └───────────── Paging (PG)


       Bit 0   PE      Protection Enable, switches processor between
                       protected and real mode
       Bit 1   MP      Math Present, controls function of the WAIT
                       instruction
       Bit 2   EM      Emulation, indicates whether coprocessor functions
                       are to be emulated
       Bit 3   TS      Task Switched, set and interrogated by coprocessor
                       on task switches and when interpretting coprocessor
                       instructions
       Bit 4   ET      Extension Type, indicates type of coprocessor in
                       system
       Bits 5-30       Reserved
       bit 31  PG      Paging, indicates whether the processor uses page
                       tables to translate linear addresses to physical
                       addresses

       - see   SMSW  LMSW

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