DOS ain't dead

since it works perfectly .. never change a running system ? (Developers)

posted by DOS386, 20.02.2008, 01:45

> What are these "many other bugs"? Please supply a list!

OK ... later Regrettably few of them or even none will qualify as criminal ...

> I'm not yet convinced that your code contains "other improvements",
> because the start is not really promising

> Do you know that the NT flag sometimes is "lost" when running under some

> V86-monitors can fake the content of the flags register, so you should be
> very careful with assumptions in this regard.

YES. You are just confirming that those bring nothing but trouble and supplying one reason why I don't like them "too much"

> AFAIK NTVDM is one of those, for example.

Does it refuse to run for you ? "Need 80386"

> After all, a test for 80386 is not really necessary, because DPMILD32
> won't use 386-specific opcodes before the DPMI host has
> push sp
> pop ax
> cmp ax,sp
> jnz nono

Indeed possible also ... with 80386 it just aborts faster

What about the TripleFault in HDPMI32 and the long mode ?

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Complete thread:

• [BUG] Criminal Mark-related bug | DPMIST32.BIN/PESTUB/ VALX - DOS386, 24.01.2008, 02:21 (Developers)
  • [BUG] Criminal Mark-related bug | DPMIST32.BIN/PESTUB/ VALX - Japheth, 24.01.2008, 06:05
    • since it works perfectly .. never change a running system ? - DOS386, 19.02.2008, 01:41
      • since it works perfectly .. never change a running system ? - Japheth, 19.02.2008, 19:21
        • since it works perfectly .. never change a running system ? - DOS386, 20.02.2008, 01:45
          • since it works perfectly .. never change a running system ? - Japheth, 20.02.2008, 08:16
          • since it works perfectly .. never change a running system ? - Japheth, 21.02.2008, 10:22
    • SnglFault ->DblFault ->TripleFault -> BOOM - unavoidable ? - DOS386, 19.02.2008, 02:00
      • SnglFault ->DblFault ->TripleFault -> BOOM - unavoidable ? - Japheth, 20.02.2008, 10:51
        • SnglFault ->DblFault ->TripleFault -> BOOM - unavoidable ? - DOS386, 21.02.2008, 02:33
          • SnglFault ->DblFault ->TripleFault -> BOOM - unavoidable ? - Japheth, 21.02.2008, 07:05
            • SnglFault ->DblFault ->TripleFault -> BOOM - unavoidable ? - DOS386, 22.02.2008, 03:09
  • [BUG] Criminal Mark-related bug | DPMIST32.BIN/PESTUB/ VALX - Laaca, 24.01.2008, 07:33
  • [BUG] Criminal Mark-related bug | DPMIST32.BIN/PESTUB/ VALX - rr, 24.01.2008, 08:18
    • [BUG] Criminal Mark-related bug | DPMIST32.BIN/PESTUB/ VALX - DOS386, 19.02.2008, 01:30