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From: greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: New DOS Interrupt List Posted
Message-ID: <382@timeinc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 18:31:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: timeinc.382
Posted: Thu Aug  1 18:31:16 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Aug-85 03:45:50 EDT
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Reply-To: greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg)
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Organization: Time, Inc. - New York
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Making code that depends on some of the little known features of 
DOS isn't always bad:

If I'm writing code that is specifically designed to get around one of the
short-comings of DOS 2.x, then I've just got to make sure that 3.x
people don't use the code. That's why my code always checks the
version number (at one time an undocumented feature, BTW!).

I would like to see Microsoft put something in like:

INT X, AH = yy    -  Turn on multi-user, multi-tasking (Not supported)

then I could use it, and know it will go away (maybe) in the next
release.


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