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- From: georgem@microsoft.com (George Moore)
- Subject: Re: Windows Memory Protection (was Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.223919.26720@microsoft.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 22:39:19 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
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- tracer@majestix.cs.uoregon.edu (Roger M. Wilcox) writes:
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- >And what [Windows] replaces DOS with is actually quite a powerful OS
- >in its own right. True, even in Protected Mode (Standard/Enhanced)
- >all applications run at privilege level 0 (Kernel level), ...
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- Correction. As of Windows 3.1, all applications, including the shell,
- GDI.DLL, and USER.DLL run in Ring 3. Only the p-mode kernel runs
- in Ring 0.
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