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PDOS-generic (Announce)

posted by kerravon , Ligao, Free World North, 31.10.2021, 22:29

> > Hold the use of the 8086 and the 80386 constant.
> > Hold the C90 standard constant, but backdated to
> > 1980. Hold memory prices constant. What could have,
> > or should have been done, with the benefit of
> > hindsight, and flexibility in software choices?
> > ie what options did humanity have available, but
> > missed?
>
> I just dream of a world in which IBM honoured that interrupts 00h to 1Fh
> were declared reserved for the CPU by Intel. Would make debugging and
> hardware interrupt requests a lot easier. (lDebug doesn't hook the Real 86
> Mode interrupt 0Dh, which would be useful as GPF handler but overlaps with
> an IRQ handler.)

I looked that up:

http://www.ctyme.com/intr/int-0d.htm

What is it that links IRQ5 to INT 0Dh? Can that
be changed, on your PC at least?

Complete thread:

• PDOS-generic - kerravon, 30.10.2021, 10:02 (Announce)
  • PDOS-generic - kerravon, 31.10.2021, 06:40
    • PDOS-generic - kerravon, 31.10.2021, 09:43
      • PDOS-generic - ecm, 31.10.2021, 22:11
        • PDOS-generic - kerravon, 31.10.2021, 22:29
          • PDOS-generic - ecm, 31.10.2021, 22:32
            • PDOS-generic - kerravon, 31.10.2021, 22:46
              • PDOS-generic - tom, 02.11.2021, 18:25
                • PDOS-generic - kerravon, 02.11.2021, 21:29
                  • PDOS-generic - ecm, 03.11.2021, 08:54
                    • PDOS-generic - kerravon, 03.11.2021, 19:48
      • PDOS-generic - marcov, 02.11.2021, 19:42
        • PDOS-generic - kerravon, 02.11.2021, 22:00
          • PDOS-generic - marcov, 03.11.2021, 16:43
            • PDOS-generic - kerravon, 03.11.2021, 20:06
              • PDOS-generic - marcov, 13.11.2021, 15:49
                • PDOS-generic - kerravon, 14.11.2021, 09:01
            • PDOS-generic - tom, 04.11.2021, 15:28
              • PDOS-generic - marcov, 08.11.2021, 10:21
                • PDOS-generic - tkchia, 08.11.2021, 16:24
                  • PDOS-generic - DosWorld, 08.11.2021, 17:17
                  • PDOS-generic - marcov, 13.11.2021, 16:03
                    • PDOS-generic - tkchia, 13.11.2021, 17:42
                • PDOS-generic - kerravon, 12.11.2021, 01:50
                  • PDOS-generic - kerravon, 12.11.2021, 11:10
                  • PDOS-generic - Ringding, 12.11.2021, 13:39
                    • PDOS-generic - kerravon, 13.11.2021, 02:26
                      • PDOS-generic - Ringding, 13.11.2021, 09:55
                        • PDOS-generic - Ringding, 13.11.2021, 10:51