[Dailydave] luckily, there are no dumb questions

[Andreas Junestam]

If memory servers me right, Alpha only supported to "rings" and therefore only 2 was used on Intel as well.

/andreas


-----Original Message-----
From: dailydave-bounces at lists.immunitysec.com on behalf of dan at geer.org
Sent: Thu 6/7/2007 12:30 PM
To: dailydave at lists.immunitysec.com
Subject: [Dailydave] luckily, there are no dumb questions
 

Luckily, there are no dumb questions or this would
likely be one.

How is it so that MS Windows uses only Rings 0 & 3?
An engineering answer, a marketing answer, and/or
an historical answer would be welcome.  Don't know
why I never thought to ask before, but I'm asking
now.  (And if I'm really wrong, please tell me what
uses 1|2.)

Bemusedly,

--dan

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