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Implementations
31 related topics
Privilege level
21 related topics
Modes
16 related topics
Overview
14 related topics
Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
Topics to explore
A structured outline of related entities, concepts and subtopics. Open any item to build a new map centered on it.Browse the full topic structure. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.
Overview
- Computer science
- Fault tolerance
- Computer security
- Privilege Privilege (computing)
- Computer system
- CPU Central processing unit
- Architectures Computer architecture
- CPU modes
- Microcode
- Level Abstraction layer
- Spyware
- Device drivers Device driver
- X86S X86
- Intel
Implementations
- Multics
- Unix
- GE 645
- Memory management unit
- Honeywell 6180
- Supervisor mode Protection ring
- User mode User space
- Windows NT
- OS/2
- DOS
- EMM386
- DR-DOS
- DPMS DOS Protected Mode Services
- OpenVMS
- Xen
- Hypervisors Hypervisor
- Ongoing discussion Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate
- Monolithic Monolithic kernel
- Micro-kernels Microkernel
- Usenet
- Web forums Internet forum
- NGSCB Next-Generation Secure Computing Base
- X86 virtualization
- Intel VT-x
- Thread Thread (computing)
- Virtual memory
- Data General Eclipse MV/8000
- Program counter (PC) Program counter
- Supervisor call
- ARM ARM architecture
Modes
- Operating systems Operating system
- Exokernel
- Linux Linux kernel
- MacOS
- Windows Microsoft Windows
- System call
- Loadable kernel modules Loadable kernel module
- Getpid Process identifier
- L3 microkernel
- Maurice Wilkes
- Access control
- Firewalls Firewall (computing)
- EXtremeDB Kernel Mode EXtremeDB
- Context switches Context switch
- VDSO
- Hardware-assisted virtualization
Privilege level
- Instruction set
- General protection fault
- Linux
- IOS
- Android Android (operating system)
- Paging
- Containerization Containerization (computing)
- Virtual machines Virtual machine
- Kernel mode
- Virtualize
- X86 CPUs X86 architecture
- FLAGS register
- Protected mode
- Long mode
- I/O ports I/O port
- I/O Port Permissions Task State Segment
- VT-x
- SVM Secure Virtual Machine
- System Management Mode
- Intel Management Engine
- AMD Platform Security Processor
Use of hardware features
Advanced semantic analysis
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Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.Protection ring
Nodes91
Edges90
Triples130
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.021978
Components1
How this topic connects Entity context
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Protection ring
Top relations
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Protection ring → ACM, Age, Alex Ho, Alexander, Andrei, Andrew Warfield, April, Archived, Art, August, Boebert, Boris Dragovic, CA, Caelli, Chapter, Code, Cynthia, David, DBMS, December
related to Implementations · 14
Protection ring → Appending Unit, CPU, For, GE-600, Honeywell, However, Multics, Multiple, Protection, The GE, Unix, Windows, Windows NT, Windows Server
Important terminology Word statistics
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Important terminology
ring operating system hardware mode privilege systems rings level kernel access protection user modes security use levels architecture supervisor x86
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| certain CPU functionality | instance of | Ring 0 is the level with the most privileges and interacts most directly with the physical hardware | 0.80 | text |
| web browsers running in higher numbered rings must request access to the network | instance of | Programs | 0.80 | text |
| a resource restricted to a lower numbered ring.X86S | instance of | Programs | 0.80 | text |
| a canceled Intel architecture published in 2024 | instance of | Programs | 0.80 | text |
| has only ring 0 | instance of | Programs | 0.80 | text |
| ring 3 | instance of | Programs | 0.80 | text |
| EMM386 run at ring 0 | instance of | whereas 386 memory managers | 0.80 | text |
| Intel VT-x | instance of | and hypervisors based on x86 virtualization | 0.80 | text |
| modifying registers for various descriptor tables | instance of | This flag determines whether it would be possible to execute machine code operations | 0.80 | text |
| or performing operations such as disabling interrupts | instance of | This flag determines whether it would be possible to execute machine code operations | 0.80 | text |
| EMM386 is loaded | instance of | for as long as no 386 memory manager | 0.80 | text |
| memory regions | instance of | Privilege levelA privilege level in the x86 instruction set controls the access of the program currently running on the processor to resources | 0.80 | text |
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
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