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Ring protection - lower number => higher privilege level
- Ring 0: Kernel, Device Drivers, Filesystems
- Ring 1: Not used
- Ring 2: "IOPL" -- mostly print and video
- Ring 3: Everything else
I/O Adressing requires Ring 2 or VDM
Processes have their own virtual address space (except for explicitly shared memory)
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