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|    mutazilah@gmail.com to James Harris    |
|    Re: microsoft vs linux    |
|    30 Jun 21 14:48:17    |
      From: muta...@gmail.com              On Thursday, July 1, 2021 at 2:25:42 AM UTC+10, James Harris wrote:              > > Linux programs on the other hand do INT 80H calls,       > > just as MSDOS programs do INT 21H calls. This       > > means the calling environment needs sufficient       > > privilege to set up at least one interrupt vector.              > It's not the calling environment which sets up the interrupt vector. The       > kernel does that.              I wish to run PDOS as an unprivileged kernel. You can       see proof of concept here:              https://sourceforge.net/p/pdos/gitcode/ci/master/tree/bios/bios.c              Any application that does any interrupt won't work.              Win32 executables should work, although I haven't       definitively proven that DLLs can be handled.              BFN. Paul.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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