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From: bobb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Bob Beauchaine)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: INT 019h question
Message-ID: <6469@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>
Date: 6 Dec 90 20:13:29 GMT
References: <25207@adm.brl.mil>
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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In article <25207@adm.brl.mil> C0361@univscvm.csd.scarolina.edu ( Thomas Jenkins) writes:
>They wanted to have the program reboot the
>system after changes are complete.  When asked, I said call int 019h.  This
>will preform a warm boot.  Didn't work.  All my references say 19h has no
>arguments and if a certain memory location contains 1234h, no memory check
>is done, else a memory check will occur.
>  Now I tried it.  No luck.  These are my attempts:
>

  Beats me.  I thought this would work also, and unless I'm mistaken
  I've used this method myself to perform warm boots.
  Just now, I went over to a AST 286 box and tried to execute a
  INT 19 from debug.  The computer just hung with the A: drive
  spinning.  Peter Nortons guide to the IBM PC does indeed verify
  that int 19H is the BIOS bootstrap loader.  


  Bob Beauchaine
  bobb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM


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