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Re: Rebooting (again... bleh!)

#1292
From: George Jetson
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1992 00:56
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In article <1992Sep5.004058.25572@midway.uchicago.edu> I wrote:

>	I mean, I know I end up sounding like the world's biggest
>	weenie, but its like it would be nice if someone would compile
>	it and put it on an FTP site somewhere.
>
>I did search SIMIBM.IDX, on keyword WARM, and didn't find anything
>particularly recent.

Also, a couple other questions:
	1) The FAQ entry does the INT 15 thing, simulating Ctrl/Alt/Del
	   to flush the cache, but then does the actual boot via the usual
	   call of FFFF:0.  Wouldn't it be better to do the actual boot
	   via the simualated C/A/D?  (I'm thinking of what will happen
	   if I run this program inside a DV window [I'm scared to try
	   it]  Ideally a warm reboot program ought to simply close the
	   window.)
	2) What about the fact that special considerations are often
	   needed to reliably reboot when a V86 program like QEMM is
	   running?  I know for a fact that, at least in assembly,
	   simply jumping to FFFF:0 doesn't always work.

It seems like the FAQ entry could be more complete.  (Not that I'm
complaining, mind you...)

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From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
Subject: Re: Rebooting (again... bleh!)
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