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from: DAVID KIRSCHBAUM
date: 1997-05-13 10:55:00
subject: 486TO586

 >  * David Kirschbaum writes to All, on Thursday May 08 1997
 >    at 14:32:
 >>> Has anyone disassembled this bogus utility?  (It purports to
 >>> somehow magically change your system so your 486 now runs as
 >>> well as a 586 .. and the most recent versions say it'll run
 >>> like a Pentium.)
 >>> It's a total fraud, of course .. but I just wondered what the
 >>> program is _actually_ doing (and a disassembly would be the
 >>> best way to find out, I suppose).
 > I found my original message, I guess I'm a little embarrassed
 > posting it now when I re-read it: here I was tracing through
 > thinking this program was attempting all sorts of nasty things,
 > when it was probably perfectly normal HLL startup code.
 > The comments on the documentation are valid though.
I never saw a decent FILE.DIZ explaining what it was supposed to do, so that 
was informative.  Yeah, plain old Pascal or C start-up code _can_ be 
disconcerting, can't it :-)
If you're interested in the (mostly) disassembled .ASM source, I'll email it 
to you.  Just to complete the loop.
David
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