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