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- From: robert@alkymi.unit.no (Robert Schmidt)
- Subject: Undocumented SDA in DOS 5.0?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.201517.22810@ugle.unit.no>
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 20:15:17 GMT
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- Is the undocumented Swappable Data Area implemented in DOS 5.0, and
- is it compatible with the SDA's of DOS 3.30 or DOS 4.01?
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- I have read the book Undocumented DOS by Schulman et al, but the sample
- TSRs on the disk that used the SDA, worked only if I fooled them to
- beleive my DOS version was 3.30. Even then they seemed a bit unstable.
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- The SDA is used to implement task switching, even in the middle of a
- DOS interrupt 21h call.
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- I use 4DOS 4.01 with DOS 5.0, but as the SDA can hardly be implemented
- in COMMAND.COM, I can see no reason why 4DOS should be a problem.
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- I would appreciate it if any of the authors of the book, Ralph Brown
- for example, would answer me on this. Although all of you netters
- are most welcome, of course... :)
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- robert@solan.unit.no
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