Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 11:53:09 05/03/01
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On May 02, 2001 at 22:21:07, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On May 02, 2001 at 18:36:58, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On May 02, 2001 at 14:46:03, Robert Hyatt wrote:
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>>>On May 02, 2001 at 13:47:15, Ed Schröder wrote:
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>>>>
>>>>I started with a SMP version perhaps even earlier then Stefan.
>>>>
>>>>Ed
>>>>
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>>>This says two things:
>>>
>>>1. You have finally moved to windows, since SMP in DOS is not possible.
>>>(or Linux or whatever, of course).
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>>It is actually of course possible.
>>
>>Don't tell me you can't imagine ways to do it.
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>Nope. The kernel _itself_ is not thread-safe. Which means system calls
>would not be thread safe. Would be a lot of fun to debug _that_. Although
>I doubt you would get to the debug stage with APIC interrupt handling that
>would blow DOS out of the water.
It is easy to do with DOS boxes running under the Windows OS.
Christophe
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