Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 21 Feb 1997 13:28:47 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, nate@mt.sri.com, mark@quickweb.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sun Workshop compiler vs. GCC?u
Message-ID:  <199702212028.NAA01921@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199702210625.XAA00389@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Feb 20, 97 11:25:19 pm

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> > 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
---
Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199702212028.NAA01921>