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Re: putting chars back to keyboard buffer...

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From: Arthur Rubin
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:54
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In <lb00197.11@Corlac> lb00197@Corlac (David Porco) writes:


>This is kind-of a wierd thing (But aren't all computer concepts).  There 
>are basically 4 pointers: Buffer_Start, Buffer_End, Buffer_Head & 
>Buffer_Tail.

>Buffer_Start is the start of the Keyboard buffer in memory, and Buffer_End
>is the end of this buffer.  These are Far pointers at address 0x00400080
>and 0x00400082 respectively.  

Almost correct.  They are segment 0x0040 pointers, rather than Far pointers.

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From: a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin)
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Subject: Re: putting chars back to keyboard buffer...
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