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Plasma Active Three released

Plasma Active Three released

Posted Oct 16, 2012 21:06 UTC (Tue) by rmini (subscriber, #4991)
In reply to: Plasma Active Three released by viro
Parent article: Plasma Active Three released

Interestingly enough, MS was a v7 licensee before MS-DOS was around (Xenix). As an historical aside, MS-DOS handled protecting its non-reentrant APIs by setting a flag in memory that TSRs were supposed to check (with interrupts disabled) before making any DOS calls.


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