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From: invalid AT erehwon DOT invalid (Graaagh the Mighty)
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Subject: Re: Peculiar behavior of program.
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On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 09:33:15 +0200, adsgohere AT durchnull DOT de (Rudolf
Polzer) sat on a tribble, which squeaked:

>Not really. You have access to ring 0 and can change any memory location you
>want without error, if you know how to do this. So a crash in CWSDPMI does
>not necessarily reveal a CWSDPMI bug.

In theory. In practise, my code doesn't actually do anything of the
sort. (No nearptr hack for instance.) Indeed, it wouldn't run at all
under windoze if it did -- it would fail with a windows error message,
rather than succeed in scribbling somewhere.
-- 
Bill Gates: "No computer will ever need more than 640K of RAM." -- 1980
"There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of." -- 1980
"This antitrust thing will blow over." -- 1998
Combine neo, an underscore, and one thousand sixty-one to make my hotmail addy.

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