From: "A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
Organization: Materials Science Centre
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 11:06:54 GMT
Subject: Re: What are protected mode rings?
Message-ID: <10859845BA@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk>

  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.