Huge wrote:

The Natural Philosopher writes:

Huge wrote:


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The kinds of functionality we are talking about here takes place "below"
the O/S level (not that W/98 is much of an O/S in the first place). (Despite
my earlier facetious remark about O/S idel loops...)



Nothing except internal machine codes takes place below operating system
level.


No offence, but you obviously have no idea what you're talking about. Can I
suggest you go and read about the IBM S/360 and Transmeta processor
architectures?





Frankly, I'd rather not.

All processors are CPU, varous hardware bits and microcode. The OS core
is ultimately in machine code, and the microcode interprets that and
fiddles with the actual hardware.

Sop below OS is only the microcode.