> * 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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