Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 22:06:50 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: shmit@erols.com, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DOSCMD: Problems w/ Quicken Message-ID: <199801191136.WAA00350@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jan 1998 02:23:48 -0800." <19980119022348.44312@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
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> Brian Cully scribbled this message on Jan 19: > > On %M %N, Mike Smith wrote: > > > Yecch. If it's actually trying to do what the above claims, it's > > > making quite a mess. (0040:0000 is in seriously low memory, but > > > 0040:ffff doesn't make any sense at all). > > > > Hrm... now it's been a while since I've done DOS assembler, so this > > maybe incorrect, but IIRC, 0x40 is the keyboard segment. > > the 0x40 is the bios segment.. it really looks like a miscalculation > of some sort... Yeah, that's all fine, but what I *don't* understand is why it should be trapping as it does claiming that 'movw (%bx),%ax' is an illegal instruction. Ideas, guys? Anyone out there with a copy of Quicken 5 for DOS that can poke at this? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\
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