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Thanks for posting this. This is a fascinating project and I hope you post more about it. I had a question about something under the Microcode section which stated:

>"These are often complex operations, like switching operating modes, reading/writing internal CPU registers, etc."

Is a switch from ring 3 to ring 0 handled by microcode then? If so why is this?




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