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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!alistair
- From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
- Subject: Re: SoftPC Error Message:
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.024534.26933@microsoft.com>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 02:45:34 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1498@sousa.ltn.dec.com> <1992Aug20.063314.12530@microsoft.com>
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- In article <1992Aug20.063314.12530@microsoft.com> alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks) writes:
- >In article <1498@sousa.ltn.dec.com> perkins@gamma1.ltn.dec.com (Eric Perkins) writes:
- >>Can someone at Microsoft clear this up?
- >>- When running NT on Intel machines what if any role does SoftPC code
- >> play?
-
- OK, I went and asked. We use the v86 bmose to run the code, but once we've
- noted that the app is hitting on a virtual device, then we use the same
- shared virtualisation code on risc & x86 to reflect the i/o back to the
- the physical drivers - so, indeed, you can get the same error messages
-
- -- Alistair
-