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Remember the iAPX 432?Remember the iAPX 432?Posted Jan 18, 2007 7:03 UTC (Thu) by eru (subscriber, #2753)In reply to: Remember the iAPX 432? by BrucePerens Parent article: LCA: Andrew Tanenbaum on creating reliable systems You could do a lot of that by using a regular Intel 32-bit x86 architecture chip the way the original designers of its security features apparently intended: Put almost everything in its own segment, use the 4 rings to give least privilege to code modules, use call gates, etc. And you get quite a performance hit over the "unixy" way of using it. But it could be a lot more secure.
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