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- From: muzo@waffle.sns.com (muzaffer kal)
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- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
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- Date: 6 Jan 93 01:38:45 GMT
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- References: <1993Jan4.174101.21073@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl>
- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 17:35:56 PST
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- leo@rulhp2.leidenuniv.nl (L. Mekenkamp) writes:
-
- >
- > > I honestly don't know if Intel has undocumented stuff on
- > >their chips, though, so the analogy is not a very tight one.
- > >
- > >
- > > -Phil
- > >
- > >--
- > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > >Phil Lafornara 1 Microsoft Way
- > >philipla@microsoft.com Redmond, WA 98052-6399
- > >Note: Microsoft doesn't even _know_ that these are my opinions. So there.
- > >
- >
- > Ehhhm, Intel does seem to have some *undocumented* stuff though. Wasn't there
- > an instruction around that wasn't documented? And how about NeXTSTeP not work
- yes. LOADALL instruction is undocumented and one of the utilities of
- MS uses it. (possibly ram disk driver). It is an instruction to load all
- the state of the processor (including the selector caches, which is the
- usefull part to access extended memory).
-
- Muzaffer
- >
- > Leo
- >
- > Leo Mekenkamp
- > Leiden University, The Netherlands
- > Mekenkamp@RulWinWST.Leidenuniv.NL
- > ^^^
- > Nothing to do with MS, believe me...
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