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Date: | Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:34:15 +0300 (IDT) |
From: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
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Subject: | Re: Peculiar behavior of program. |
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On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Graaagh the Mighty wrote: > And why does it crash > Windows? A protected mode task should be utterly unable to bring the > OS down, unless it invokes a kernel function or device driver that is > buggy or doesn't enforce its preconditions. I don't know where did you take that idea. It's not to hard to crash an OS from protected mode if the OS doesn't take all the necessary steps to actively prevent that.
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