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echo: os2prog
to: Andrew Grillet
from: John Zielinski
date: 1995-08-19 00:13:36
subject: Re: system lockups

-=> Quoting Andrew Grillet to Joe Lerch <=-

 AG> cli does not take effect until after the following instruction
 AG> (necessary for various hardware reasons) so ints remain off, if off.

You're thinking of STI, CLI doesn't work that way.  External interrupts are
not recognized at the end of the CLI instruction.  Looks like this thread
has drifted from OS/2 to assembly so I suggest we leave it at this.

John

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