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Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:17:32 +0100
To: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>,
       Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe.alfaro@gmail.com>
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: binary drivers and development
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At 12:01 AM 3/13/2005 -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:
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>You wanna give me a quick run-down on x86 of CPL and Ring levels?  It's
>been bugging me.  I know they're there and have a basic idea that they
>control what a context can do, don't know what CPL stands for, and
>there's a visible gap in my knowledge.  I like to understand everything,
>it makes things easier.

http://appzone.intel.com/literature/index.asp to locate the Intel processor 
of your choice, or 
http://developer.intel.com/design/pentium4/manuals/index_new.htm#sdm_vol1 
for P4.

         -Mike 

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