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'Protection Enabled' is the official Intel name for the PE bit of cr0.

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be executed by the processor. One of the registers is the
<literal>cr0</literal> 32-bit control register, and its value
just after the reboot is 0. One of the cr0's bits, the bit PE
(Protected Enabled) indicates whether the processor is running
(Protection Enabled) indicates whether the processor is running
in protected or real mode. Since at boot time this bit is
cleared, the processor boots in real mode. Real mode means,
among other things, that linear and physical addresses are