From:	"Tonu Aas" <tonu AT ids DOT ee>
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Subject:	Re: DJGPP Interrupt programs running under Win98 Console
Date:	Mon, 2 Apr 2001 09:39:28 +0300
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> > I'm still confused - I'd naievely assumed I'd chained onto the one and
> > only hardware timer interrupt in Windows. This interrupt occurs whether
> > my program is in the foreground or background.

> The only way Windows
> can do that is by virtualizing every aspect of the machine's hardware.

And Windows downgrades your chipset also.
You timer chip 8254 becomes trough virtualisation into readonly 8253 !
(You cant reprogram timer into square wave generator and also you cant
read back timer output status(8254 feature)).

Thats bad.

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