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Re: which timer interrupt?

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From: Michael A. Shiels
Date: Sat, 05 May 1990 11:07
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All of my utilities hook 8 and first call the old 8 then they sit
in a semaphored section donig there stuff.

This was because way back a lot of TSRs didn't chain to the old int 1C handler
so all of a sudden you lost touch with timer ticks.  Everyone passes 8 on
or your machine would lose track of time.
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From: mshiels@tmsoft.uucp (Michael A. Shiels)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: which timer interrupt?
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Date: 5 May 90 11:07:27 GMT
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