On 18 Sep 2020, at 10:35, William ML Leslie 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Not to mention that the multics driver rings are a fairly dark corner of
the processor these days, since no operating system appears to make use of
1 and 2, so nobody is inspecting them for hardware bugs.

Correct, for the basic reason that there is no benefit from running things in 
rings 1 or 2, you can just run them at ring 0. Also, you can safely expect poor 
performance (eg systenter/sysexit aren’t supported).

Gernot
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