To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Ring 0?
Message-ID: <19970310.174935.10167.10.chambersb@juno.com>
References: <5fivnk$cfc AT freenet-news DOT carleton DOT ca> 
From: chambersb AT juno DOT com (Benjamin D Chambers)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 20:46:27 EST


On 10 Mar 1997 05:31:11 GMT ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
writes:
>Flame me if I'm wrong, but doesn't a DOS box run on a virtual machine 
>with
>its own Windows-provided image of the real memory map? Aren't all of 
>its
>transactions indirect via the Windows kernel then?
And how often have you crashed Windows? Hehe :)

>
>[DOS is terribly insecure]
>
>Is this caused by an aspect of Intel CPU design or by an aspect of the
>DPMI spec?
I assumed it was the OS (I could be wrong).  Isn't Linux as secure as any
other Unix out there? (And it runs on the 386+).

...Chambers