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Date:      Thu, 18 Jan 1996 14:08:17 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        trangmar@gnsnet.com, langfod@maui.net, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, phk@critter.tfs.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Building a "custom" release of 2.1.0
Message-ID:  <199601180338.OAA04973@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199601171934.MAA03103@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jan 17, 96 12:34:26 pm

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Terry Lambert stands accused of saying:
> 
> The limitation on boot-critical devices comes because there is no
> VM86() "fallback" drivers using BIOS calls to do a minimal job (all
> boot critical devices have BIOS hooking POST routines, or they are
> unusable for DOS).

Speaking of which, where's our step-by-step list of what else has to happen
before we can do vm86()?

> 					Terry Lambert

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