Re: Is BIOS Reentrant?

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From: John Porter
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 1990 04:54

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In article <1990Nov14.210348.27367@Octopus.COM> stever@octopus.UUCP (Steve Resnick ) writes:
>With the exception of INT 05, all interrupts < 10H are hardware generated. 
>You can call int 5 (print screen) via software with no ill effects.

Yeah, I know.  I didn't feel it necesary to go into these bizarre exceptions.
I also didn't mean "never" in an absolute sense.
Calling int 5 is actually kinda fun.  Trapping it is even more fun.
--jp

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Subject: Re: Is BIOS Reentrant?
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