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to: PAUL WANKADIA
from: MARIUS BENDIKSEN
date: 1997-10-26 19:24:00
subject: DPMI question

> would have had to show you all the ASM parts of PUNIX, in order to
How far has the PUNIX project come?
> for over half an hour, last night, trying to figure out why my boot-loader
> was not working ... and it turns out that I was loading the tracks over the
A nice routing which I found very useful to call on regular intervals until I 
was done with the first boot code was:
dot:            push ax
                mov     ax, 0x0e2e
                int     0x10   ;Never mind the other registers, my BIOS
                pop ax         ;ignores them. set BX=7 if you're paranoid.
                ret
> boot-loader itself.  Time to write some "loader loader move thyself" code.
Shouldn't be more than a simple MOVSB from 07c0:0 to 1000:0 or somesuch.
 -- SPEED 2.00 [NR]: -- Lord Nihil -- This is a microsoft-free zone.
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