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Re: doubt ?

On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 16:03:21 +0200
Angelo Dell'Aera <buffer@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

>On Sat, 31 Aug 2002 10:39:20 -0700 (PDT)
>Mcen navaraj <mcensamuel@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>hi,
>>
>>what is the use of gates in the intel processors ?
>>what is the use of interrupt gate ?
>
>If you refer to Intel x86 arch you have to distinguish between three types
>of interrupt gates which are inserted through three different functions in
>the Global Descriptor Table:

Errata: obviously it was Interrupt Descriptor Table.

Regards,

Angelo Dell'Aera 'buffer' 
<buffer@users.sourceforge.net>
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