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From: rob@conexch.UUCP (Robert Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Warm Boot
Message-ID: <30506@conexch.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jun 89 15:21:37 GMT
References: <2263@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu> <4919@arcturus>
Reply-To: rob@conexch.UUCP (Robert Collins)
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In article <4919@arcturus> mitch@arcturus.UUCP (Mitchell S. Gorman) writes:
+In article <2263@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu>, ang@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu
+writes:
+> Does anybody know of a public domain program that would do a
+> warm-boot without clearing memory?
+
+throws a prompt on the screen that says "If ya wanna reboot, hit the DEL
+key.  Any other key resets.", any waits for keyboard input.  If you DO hit
+the delete key, the sucker reboots.  If not, the next line in the code
+resets the status word.  It's quick.  It's easy.  And it gives you the

And it also clears memory!  The question was how to reboot without
clearing memory.  What you could have done is:
mov 40:72, 1234h
jmp 0f000:0fff0
That will reboot the computer and clear memory.  But I understand your
desire to have a way out of rebooting (with your prompt method).


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