[net.micro] IBM-PC loader

jec (11/12/82)

	Does anyone know how to change the address that the loader
loads files into.  The MS-DOS loader tends to load programs into low
memory, but I want to keep a resident spooler in low memory that is
serviced by the real time clock interrupt (18.2/sec) but need a way
to keep the loader from loading over it and the data to be printed.
	Also is anyone interested in creating net.micro.ibm?  A lot
of the stuff in here is irrelevent to the IBM (and a lot of the IBM
stuff is irrevelent to most of the other people here, I would imagine).
	Anyway, answers to either question would be appreciated.
				Mike Conley

dennis (11/13/82)

Well, INT 27H  should be what's required;  it advises COMMAND.COM
that there is some code above the system which should be
regarded as part of the system.  Unfortunately, nobody around
here has been able to get this to work.

Has anybody else?  This would be incredibly valuable, to things like
spoolers, new keyboard drivers, fake disk drivers, and the like.

mcewan (11/14/82)

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uiucdcs!mcewan    Nov 14 11:50:00 1982

There's already a newsgroup for the IBM pc : net.micro.pc .