From: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
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Subject: Re: DJGPP Ring
Date: 1 May 1997 23:37:25 GMT
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Thomas Harte (T DOT Harte AT btinternet DOT com DOT REMOVE_THIS_BIT) wrote:
: > : 	Is there such a thing? If not, would anyone be 
: > interested in starting one?
: > 
: > Who would get to be ring 0 though?

: 	Umm, why is there a ring 0? I don't know much about these things, but
: surely you pick up on the ring from whichever page you happen to come
: across which is attached to it. Am I wrong?

: 		-Thomas

Sorry, it was a horrible pun... `Ring' is a term for an operating level in
a protected mode system, and ring 0 is the `supervisor' level, which has
the most priviledges (AFAIK, I'm no expert in it).

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George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford