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Are they killing the ability to run DOS apps? ...Jim Thompson

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Jim Thompson
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Depends on what they mean by "address". If they kill DOS apps there's always VirtualBox with a DOS machine inside, although file access would be problematical.

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Tim Wescott

More info.

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Some trickiness between calling NTVDM, setting special segment values and interrupt handling, I suppose. Ooh, one of the links provides example code -- BBC is pretty late on this being news, it dates back to June!

Tim

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Tim Williams

doubt it, the way I understand it is that the very old piece of code that implements bios calls and such by trapping certain, normally illegal, direct memory accesses, has a bug that makes it possible to get kernel privileges in a user program.

So it "just" needed to be fixed so that it still provide the bios calls and such, but doesn't let a program mess with the kernel

-Lasse

Reply to
langwadt

No, they just wont work on Windows.

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MooseFET

Finally... someone with half a brain.

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FatBytestard

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