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echo: os2prog
to: Peter Fitzsimmons
from: Kevin Ring
date: 1995-05-18 15:21:12
subject: ASM in OS/2

*** Quoting Peter Fitzsimmons to Kevin Ring dated 05-17-95 ***
> Not knowing anything about the code,  I would hazard a guess that you 
> would want to "rewrite for OS/2",  not "port to OS/2".
> 
> Parts of the code may be salvageable unchanged if:
> 
>         - They don't call any DOS or BIOS (or any other INT) services
> 
>         - They don't manipulate (load/save/push) segment registers
>           (If you want to port the code to 16bit OS/2,  some of your
>            existing segment register manip's may still work)
> 
> You will probably agree that this excludes at leat 90% of DOS *.asm 
> code out there -- that's why I predict a rewrite rather than a port.

Like I said, this code is 100% DPMI compatible protected mode code...  So
it uses very few, if any, INT calls, and uses the segment registers only as
selectors.  Do you still say a rewrite will be necessary, or is this a
different story?

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