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- From: swami@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM (Krishnaswami)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps
- Subject: Apps not preserving 32 bit registers when they use them
- Message-ID: <1324@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 18:18:32 GMT
- Reply-To: swami@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM (Krishnaswami)
- Distribution: world
- Organization: NCR E&M CLEMSON Liberty, SC
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- I have recently run into problems with some applications like
- Lotus 123 release 3.1 and Novell Nondedicated Netware 286 that do not
- preserve the 32 bit registers on 80486 system when they use them,
- assuming all DOS PCs will use only 16 bit registers. These usually
- happen when these programs grabbed the system Timer interrupt, used
- 32 bit registers and giving control to the BIOS and the BIOS returned
- to the application that was using 32 bit regiters. Novell seems to have a
- patch for this problem.
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- Send me an email if any of you know of such problems with any
- popular software. I will post the results.
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