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Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 12:41:27 -0500
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From: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
Subject: Re: ASM - function: what should be pushed?
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At 11:21 AM 2/2/99 +0200, you wrote:
>You can't do that anyway from an IOPL-3 program (which is how DJGPP 
>programs run in most cases).  Those who write programs which run at
>ring 0 and mess with these registers, must already know what they are 
>doing...

What the heck is IOPL-3... a technical term for ring 3?

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