From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id: <9802011855.AA13251@clio.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: NSIG ?
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:55:53 -0600 (CST)
Cc: dj AT delorie DOT com, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980201204812.16669B-100000@is> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Feb 1, 98 08:50:09 pm
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> On a related issue: why do we need the 256+32 signals before the 
> ``real'' ones?  I have never seen a Unix box with this feature, their 
> signals all start with index 0.

DJ's original plan was to allow the 256 DOS interrupts to be programmed
as signals also, which is why these values were reserved.