From:	"Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
To:	A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: What are protected mode rings?
Date:	Thu, 5 Dec 1996 15:57:33 +0300 (GMT)
Message-ID:	<9612051557.aa27169@ailin.inti.edu.ar>

>  snarfy AT goodnet DOT com wrote on 19 Sep 1996 19:09:50 GMT (Subject: What are
>protected mode rings?):-
>> I was just wondering what it means for something to run at 'ring-0' or
>> 'ring-3'. What are these rings?  Are there any good books that explain
>> what these rings are?  Thanks.

>  J.R.R.Tolkien published a long book that went into this at length, I think.
Ash naj durbatuluk, ash naj drungatul .... etc ;-)

About the rings ... Mark Habersack wrote a text that's available in the DJGPP 
project book web.

SET
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Work: INTI (National Institute of Industrial Technology) Sector: ICE 
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