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by Erwin 4862 days ago
OS/2 was another one using multiple rings.

Interestingly VirtualBox takes advantage of x86's multiple rings: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch10.html#idp12629776 (which contains other interessting details about VirtualBox, like the disassembles and patches code running in the VM in certain cases)