From:	DELCAPSyerricde AT pineight DOT 8mSOFTWARE DOT com (Damian Yerrick)
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Subject:	Re: 32bit CDROM driver for DOS??
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Date:	Sun, 24 Oct 1999 17:17:37 GMT
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On 24 Oct 1999 14:26:42 GMT, aw AT mail1 DOT bet1 DOT puv DOT fi wrote:

> Rez <rividh DOT minusthispart AT earthlink DOT net> wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a 32bit CDROM driver for DOS?
> > 
> > Yeah, it wouldn't work in plain M$DOS, 
> 
> Why not?  You can use 32-bit instructions in real mode -
> it's just not the default operand size.

Yes, but real-mode interrupt handlers will often scramble the high
word of the 32-bit registers.

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