12 Nov
2007
12 Nov
'07
9:57 p.m.
Sean Conner wrote:
I can think of several thousand that have been made
over the past decade,
all made with the Intel x86 architecture. It even has the segments that
Multics used. Seems like a perfect match to me.
Hence my question regarding the number of rings used by Multics. Just
because there's multiple contexts doesn't mean that there's _enough_ of
them.
Anyone got an DG Eagle (MV) family machine lying around? It has eight
honest-to-goodness rings and hardware ring call support. Only 32 bits,
though...
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