Explain in detail. Not trying to be snobbish, but I'm curous and heaven't much in the way of documentation on the feature.
As said by Andy a zillion times:
Read about it in the so-called "bible" for the 8051:
Chapter 1 - 80C51 Family Architecture: www.nxp.com/.../80C51_FAM_ARCH_1.pdf
Chapter 2 - 80C51 Family Programmer's Guide and Instruction Set: www.nxp.com/.../80C51_FAM_PROG_GUIDE_1.pdf
Chapter 3 - 80C51 Family Hardware Description: www.nxp.com/.../80C51_FAM_HARDWARE_1.pdf