shared interrupts?

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From: Steven Mathers
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1993 07:20

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Can someone help me with the consequences of running multiple instances
of a particular DOS program under OS/2?

This DOS program drives a hardware card, and according to the manual, writes 
directly to the screen buffer (video memory) and intercepts 
interrupts 24 (DOS critical error) and 9 (keyboard interface).  

I would like to use OS/2 to run multiple instances of this program, but
I am unsure as to whether OS/2 would bomb because of sharing interrupts
and/or video memory.  It is important that these programs continue to
run in the background.

Does anyone know if OS/2 is capable of this?

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