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to: JOHN GARDENIERS
from: SAM IZZO
date: 1997-02-08 11:34:00
subject: Re: SPEEDING UP A ROUTINE

 -=> Quoting John Gardeniers to Gary Smith <=-
 JG>> I read somewhere that FS stands for Frame Segment. Do you know
 JG>> what GS stands for?
 
 JG> That's 2 for, 0 against (so far). It's always a bit hard to know about
 JG> these things. I've seen AX, BX, CX and DX also listed with perfectly
 JG> valid sounding names. The reason I could easily enough accept the
 JG> "meaning" of FS is that the original segment registers don't follow
 JG> the alpha sequence, unlike the offset registers. 
Hmm.. Further Segment and General Segment maybe? Just a guess =)
Sam
... Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.
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