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echo: os2prog
to: Jerry McBride
from: Patrick Haller
date: 1995-08-17 00:09:18
subject: system lockups

Hi Jerry!

[..]
 JM> By the way, this is a GREAT little bit of code to test prospective
 JM> motherboards. Also, this will crash (lockup) WINNT, WIN95 DOS/WINDOWS
 JM> and DOS if the motherboard is of inferior quality.
Not NT. NT does not grant a DOS session IOPL. Therefore it actually does
emulate the complete DOS inclusive non-harmful IOPL instructions. This is
the reason for NT being so stable, so slow and so incompatible with
existing DOS-/Win16-Software.
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cu/2 |atrick

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