From: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: Can a DOS Console App close its own window?
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 11:45:34 -0300
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> >  asm ("int $0x19;");
>
> Literal INT NN instructions are processed by Windows differently than
> __dpmi_int.  The latter calls the Windows DPMI server, whereas the former
> winds up in the DOS extender built into Windows.  Is it surprising that
> different parts of Windows process similar events differently?  I don't
> think so.

    Is it faster (under Win95) to call 'literal int' than dpmi_int?
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