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   Martin Str|mberg to James Harris   
   Re: Look back to "just for the H@ck"   
   20 Jul 17 12:59:06   
   
   From: ams@nospicedham.ludd.luth.se   
      
   James Harris  wrote:   
   > If I had a go at it I'd be itching to add some of my own. Things like   
      
   > * A subsequent run from the start must also work.   
      
   What does this mean?   
      
   > * Not rely on [SP] being zero - in case of non-compliant environment. (I   
   > haven't found the .COM spec but from what people have said I guess that   
   > that 16-bit word is supposed to be zero ... perhaps so that a near   
   > return gets to CS:0 which is termination code.)   
      
   What SP points at is guaranteed to be 0 for a DOS .COM program.   
      
      
   --   
   MartinS   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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