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Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client by hga on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @11:53AM (#10656838)
I submit that "supervisor/user" isn't an implementation of "rings", plural (and it's got to predate Multics by a lot, but I can't quickly prove that), and that SMM is something entirely different. Hypervisors and there use really aren't comparable to Multics Rings.

A couple of minutes with Google only found hints that confirm my memory WRT to AMD64 and rings, and/or Intel not copying a segmentation feature added to later versions of AMD's chips.

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