Re: [plex86] Performance enhancement: elminiating mode and context

[John Summerfield]

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> Well, I don't see the benefit of using ring1 in stead of ring0. The
> protection problem remains... 

Some things cannot be run in ring1; an attempt to so so generates a general 
exception..


Then ring0 code can take a look and decide whether to emulate or kill, and if 
emulation, then what kind of emulation (in some circumstances, 'device not 
present" might be more appropriate than doing something a real device would).


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