Subj : Interrupts
To   : Lee Aroner
From : Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Date : Mon May 28 2001 03:36 am

 RV>> First, OS/2 doesn't use interrupts.  [...]

 LA> Not to niggle the point, but of course OS/2 uses interrupts. Each    
 LA> and every one of those API calls is a wrapper around an interrupt    
 LA> call.

Leaving aside the point that Rachel meant that applications programmers writing 
OS/2 applications programs don't use interrupts, I vaguely remember reading 
somewhere that OS/2 in fact uses call gates, not interrupt gates, to enter the 
kernel.  

 ¯ JdeBP ®

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