how to boot a PC with an interrupt call

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From: Tom Reingold
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1986 13:57

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A little while back, people were posting little assembly language
programs that rebooted an IBM PC.  It had only one or two
instructions and could be created with DEBUG.  Now I can use one
and can't find any references.  Can someone offer the information
on how it's done?

Thanks.

Tom Reingold
Rockefeller University
New York City
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Subject: how to boot a PC with an interrupt call
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