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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Sun Workshop compiler vs. GCC?u
To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 13:28:47 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199702210625.XAA00389@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Feb 20, 97 11:25:19 pm
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> > POINT 1:	The 16 bit disk interrupts can not be hooked
> > 		successfully without disabling the Windows95 PM
> > 		disk drivers.  This contravenes the claim indicated
> > 		in Nate's last sentence above.
> 
> Counter-point.
> 
> The 16-bit Windows driver works on my Win95 box to drive
> the silly parallel-port SCSI adaptor.  How?

It hooks INT 13 instead of INT 21, and does not rely on the DOS-not-busy
interrupt for processing, as any network driver which implements NetBIOS
async sends must do.  Pretty obvious.


> Now, get your attributions correct.

I appologize for my attribution error.  It was Jamie Bowden, not Nate.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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