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- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!rei2!fox
- From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
- Subject: Re: Saving machine state
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.233111.22855@rei.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:31:11 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.154958.9682@unix.brighton.ac.uk> <1992Nov19.145020.15260@ugle.unit.no> <153@complex.complex.is>
- Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.
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- robert@alkymi.unit.no (Robert Schmidt) writes:
-
- >Also, the video state should be saved correctly. Consider all those
- >undocumented VGA modes and Super VGA modes... you have to save all VGA
- >registers in addition to the VGA memory.
-
- Also, consider that a simple image of memory below 1 Meg is a bad idea.
- The state of DOS should not be saved entirely, because things like
- buffers and FAT entries would need to reflect the current state of the
- machine, rather than the way the machine was when the snapshot was
- taken.
-
- I'm not sure if this is a big problem or a small problem.
-
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