-=> On 25 Aug 95  11:18:06 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard said to Jeff Dunlop <=-


 JdBP> No.  AFAIAA the 80286 and later provide means of loading the stack
 JdBP> segment and offset together as one atomic operation.  As I said, the
 JdBP> problem is that many DOS compilers still contain code written for
 JdBP> the 8086 and 80186 and their bugs.

But loads of my clients STILL USE 8088s - I sold one last week. I still
have to compile (DOS) code on the assumption it will be used on an 8088,
cos if they had a 386, they'd be running OS/2 :-)

Naturally, I test under OS/2 if I can, cos I dont want to load DOS just
to test some little utility (it might hang).

Andrew


... And now, the latest score from Redmond:  DOS 7, Windows 95, Users 0.
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