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From: jerry@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk)
Subject: Re: IRQs and interrupt handlers
Date: 1998/05/24
Date: 1998-05-24T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <EtFppu.4o@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 35662efc.38593625@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net


Tom Moran (tmoran@bix.com) wrote:

: Why can't he make an ISR with Gnat?  Is it missing machine operations?
: Can't he link to MASM code?  I have an old DOS program that does its
: own com port interrupts that runs in a DOS box under Win95 (much of
: the time).  Reliability and interrupt latency of course may be a
: problem...

Yes, but you are talking _DOS_ code now, running under WinXX, not
Windows code.

Reliability is always an issue in such cases, since it will require
both a 32-bit protected mode _and_ a 16-bit real mode handler to
circumvent the interrupt deflection problem.

Jerry.

-- 
-- Jerry van Dijk  | email: jdijk@acm.org
-- Leiden, Holland | member Team-Ada




  reply	other threads:[~1998-05-24  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-05-20  0:00 IRQs and interrupt handlers under Win95 Dale Keim
1998-05-20  0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-05-21  0:00   ` Michael F Brenner
1998-05-21  0:00     ` The nature of operating systems - was: IRQs and interrupt handlers Larry Kilgallen
1998-05-22  0:00       ` Chris Sparks (aka Mr. Ada)
1998-05-22  0:00         ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-05-23  0:00           ` falis
1998-05-24  0:00             ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-05-22  0:00         ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-05-23  0:00         ` Tom Moran
1998-05-24  0:00           ` Jerry van Dijk [this message]
1998-05-23  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1998-05-21  0:00     ` IRQs and interrupt handlers under Win95 Robert Dewar
1998-05-21  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
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