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From: Kai_Henningsen@ms.maus.de (Kai Henningsen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Writing a device driver in
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Date: 10 Jun 91 14:30:00 GMT
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Morten Welinder terra%diku.dk @ SUB schrieb am Do 06.06.1991, 07:54

MW>>> - They [.EXE format device drivers] work in MSDOS, but not PCDOS,
MW>>       because the .EXE loader is part of COMMAND.COM in PCDOS.
MW>>really??? ---------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
MW>
MW>My manual says so too! (MSDOS 3.1 technical ref.)

Far's I know, that was ONLY true for PC-DOS 2.x. (And it was stupid.)
Interesting enough, INTER291 doesn't mention this "feature" at all.
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