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echo: os2prog
to: Mike Bilow
from: Patrick Haller
date: 1995-08-17 00:07:26
subject: system lockups

Hi Mike!

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 MB> This is such a frequently heard "criticism" of OS/2 that
it might be
 MB> worth writing an example VDD that traps CLI, and then offers an
 MB> option in the notebook settings for disabling it.  Is there any
 MB> legitimate reason you can think of for a DOS program running in an
 MB> OS/2 window to actually do CLI?
IMHO not. But how will you trap those IOPL instructions ? If you actually
have an idea how to really implement this - don't hesitate :) Besides any
other IOPL instruction could be trapped as well. However I think this would
extremely slow down the DOS-Box.
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cu/2 |atrick

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