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Date:      Fri, 28 Feb 1997 11:34:32 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co
Cc:        jlemon@americantv.com, emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Status report of vm86/dos emulation (DOS info)
Message-ID:  <199702280104.LAA08057@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.3.95.970227153137.4650A-100000@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> from "pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co" at "Feb 27, 97 03:47:20 pm"

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pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co stands accused of saying:
> 
> * Ralph Brown's Page:
> "A comprehensive listing of interrupt calls, I/O ports, memory locations,
> and far-call interfaces for IBM PCs and compatible machines, both
> documented and undocumented. More than six megabytes of information in
> ASCII text files! "
> ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/ralf/pub/WWW/files.html

Got it; invaluable.  And I usually have one of the bundled viewers running
under doscmd while I'm hacking it 8)

> *Partial source code of a msdos clone. 
> The source code looks like it could save a lot of experimentation as to
> how dos works in bizarre situations. Note that the source code is
> copyrighted. Do not copy code from there -- use it only for determining
> how dos is supposed to work and recall that the author might have gotten
> it wrong occasionally.
> ftp://ftp.std.com/pub/rxdos/

Mike P's code.  Last I knew he wasn't giving out the code - you had to
buy the book to get that.  I couldn't get it here; I was seriously 
considering it for a while.

> *DOS extenders in the x2ftp archive (some interesting docs around, too)
> ftp://x2ftp.oulu.fi/pub/msdos/programming/pmode
> ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/pc/x2ftp

Haven't seen these.  Interesting.

> And finally, interesting, but not useful, there is the page for a 32 bit 
> DOS from Russia (commercial product): http://www.pts.mipt.ru/

Heh.  I spend a lot of time (slow link) trying to find _any_ useful
information on their site last time I looked.  Not worth it unless you're
bored.

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