Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:58:46 +0600 (LKT)
From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx>
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On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Prashant TR wrote:

> IMHO, this is *not* a good idea. This is ideal for real mode
> programs. You can never be sure that the "INT 10" will be passed to
> real mode. Some extenders support it, some don't. The best way to do

AFAIK aren't int 10h and  21h (among certain others) guaranteed to be
passed on to  the real mode handler...

DOS4GW certainly does it as do the many other extenders (PMW etc) i have
come across.

I don't think that a proper extender can refrain from passing dos and bios
function calls to real mode and handle it all by itself....

Grendel

 

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