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- From: johnw@wixer.cactus.org (john winthrop)
- Subject: Re: Did microsoft really write an OS/2 "Terminator" crash prog?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.060352.14067@wixer.cactus.org>
- Keywords: terminator microsoft crash
- Organization: Real/Time Communications
- References: <gershon.725175162@husc.harvard.edu> <Bzs05v.6ME@unx.sas.com> <1992Dec29.052115.27441@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 06:03:52 GMT
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- a simple well-known "trick" to crash os/2 is to enter debug in a dos
- session, and assemble something like:
- 100 cli
- 101 jmp 100
- It has to do with the fact that most systems don't have a "watchdog
- timer" to sense if interrupts have been disabled for too long.
-
- Many,many short programs will do similar things, and it would be fairly
- easy to write a program that would be trapped under windows, but would
- crash os/2... Most of the programs, however, are due to flaws in PC
- architecture, NOT the OS.
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