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Date:      Mon, 6 Jul 1998 21:30:18 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org>
To:        mike@smith.net.au
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com, smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com, tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: xf86OpenConsole: KDENABIO failed (Operation not permitted)
Message-ID:  <199807070230.VAA10228@detlev.UUCP>
In-Reply-To: <199807062358.QAA01334@dingo.cdrom.com> (message from Mike Smith on Mon, 06 Jul 1998 16:58:12 -0700)
References:   <199807062358.QAA01334@dingo.cdrom.com>

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>> I was about to continue that paragraph, when the question occurred:
>> Are there no other userland programs (besides wine and doscmd) that do
>> these ops?
> Lots of them; there's plenty of low-speed industrial control 
> applications that dink the hardware directly courtesy of the IOPL bit.

Actually, I meant general-purpose apps, not application-specific apps
like robotics.  But I get the idea.

Happy hacking,
joelh

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