JL> I have read that the following is not supposed to lock up an OS/2 system.
 JL> However, I have tried it in both window and full 
 JL> screen dos sessions and both times it locks up our 
 JL> system that we have to re-boot to get it back.
 JL> Could some one explain to me why this locking up our 
 JL> system and if there is a easy way to fix it.

 JL> debug
 JL> -a
 JL> xxxx:0100 cli
 JL> xxxx:0101 jmp 100
 JL> xxxx:0103 
 JL> -g 

Buy better computers  -- good computers (IBM, Compaq) have a
firmware timer feature that OS/2 will use to prevent this type of lockup.

OS/2 could have done it itself,  buy trapping the CLI in VDM's,  but it
would have made VDM's run very slowly,  so they decided not to do it.


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