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Lecture 8: Adventures in 64-bit

Motivated by a long debugging adventure, we explore segment descriptors, segment registers and model specific registers through both syscall and interrupt transitions.

Also, a brief foray into the life of processes, from the first process (initcode.S), through the zombie state and eventual freeing of all process memory.