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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: "Chih-Hao Tsai" <hao DOT tsai AT uiuc DOT edu>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 11:34:19 +0000
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Subject: Re: PCTIMER V1.4
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"Chih-Hao Tsai" <hao DOT tsai AT uiuc DOT edu> wrote:

> The current version, PCTIMER 1.3 was released more than two years ago.
> Over the years it has been reported that this version does not work
> very well.  Especially when compiled with DJGPP V2 and executed under
> Win95, the timer frequency will be double.  So I read the latest
> DJGPP FAQ and found that "hardware interrupts are always passed to
> protected mode first, and only if unhandled are they reflected to real
> mode".
> 
> It appears that there's no need to implement both real and protected
> mode handlers.  So I removed the protected mode handler and tested
> the program again.  

Why the pmode one and not the real mode one?

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