Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS 44h (Get Device Information) - CD-ROM marked as remote?

2023-03-13 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Thanks (to both) for the answer, Aitor On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 at 22:45, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 3/12/2023 5:56 PM, Aitor Santamaría wrote: > > Hello, > > > > A quick question, if I query device information on CD-ROM (int 21h, > > AX=4409h), will I get that a CD-ROM drive is remote? (bit 12 = 1).

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS 44h (Get Device Information) - CD-ROM marked as remote?

2023-03-13 Thread Ralf Quint
On 3/12/2023 5:56 PM, Aitor Santamaría wrote: Hello, A quick question, if I query device information on CD-ROM (int 21h, AX=4409h), will I get that a CD-ROM drive is remote?  (bit 12 = 1). I am getting this under XP's ntvdm, and it sounds as a correct thing (the filesystem is not FAT), but

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Swappable Data (SDA) Area

2023-03-13 Thread Michael Brutman
I'm going to try to make this very simple ... To be re-entrant (in the context of code) means that if a function is running and by some path it winds up being called again, it will work. This path might be through the normal call chain on the stack or through interrupts and signal handlers. If a

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Swappable Data (SDA) Area

2023-03-13 Thread Liam Proven
On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 at 22:29, Bret Johnson wrote: > Or the definition of re-entrancy when applied to a kernel is different than > the definition when it is applied to something else? *Yes*. Words in isolation mean different things than they do combined with another word. A "tea spoon" is a

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Swappable Data (SDA) Area

2023-03-13 Thread Liam Proven
On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 at 19:03, Michael Brutman wrote: > > I'm going to make this really simple ... you are using the word "virtual" in > an overly generalized sense. That is not compatible with highly technical > discussions, wherever everybody needs to use the same terminology in order to >

Re: [Freedos-devel] Open Watcom v2 DOS installer is abysmally slow in FreeDOS

2023-03-13 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi all, after several tests I found the reason for this strange behaviour. It disappeared when I booted from a virtual diskette without fdconfig / fdauto.bat and executed watcom.exe. Same from HD. Then I added fdconfig again - it was still fast. Finally I found out that line (in about 62)