Re: Re Keystrokes: Possible BIOS compatibility

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

 I don't now if this is of help, and I don't know why I
 might need to use the Keystrokes routine, but here is
 what I get running KEYSTROKES from with XY4 under OS
 Windows XP with SP2 installed.

 Command prompt -- xy4
 The NT VDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction.
 cs: 1foo IP: 8b3c OP: ff e8 2b O5 72

 It's all gibberish to me. I hope it makes sense to you.

 M.W. Poirier


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On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Patricia M. Godfrey wrote:

> Looking for a tool to track down a minor annoyance, I discovered the
> Keystrokes routine in U2. The only problem is that it will only run on
> one of the six machines on which I have XyWrite permanently installed,
> As they're all running some version of 9x, it could be the general
> bugginess of that pathetic excuse for an opsys. But perhaps not, for
> various complicated reasons. Has anyone running an NT-based Windows (NT,
> Y2K, XP) on a PC with a fairly recent (post-1996) BIOS run it
> successfully? Would some kind souls like to test?
>
> On one it runs, on one it locks up, and on all the rest it crashes with
> an "Illegal operation: tried to execute an invalid instruction" (or, in
> one case, "General Protection exception"). On a couple of them (haven't
> tested on all yet), it locks up even after a reboot to DOS. That is what
> makes me suspect a BIOS glitch, along with the fact that the PC where it
> runs and the one where it locks up are running the exact same release of
> Windows: 95C. The one where it runs is that with the oldest BIOS. I can
> supply detailed data of BIOS, memory reports (both with and without
> XyWrite loaded) and pif properties if anyone knows how to interpret all
> that.
>
> Robert, if you're lurking, this is NOT a request, not even a hint, for a
> fix. I know what you think of 9x. And I did get it to run on one system
> and saved the resultant file.
>
> Patricia M. Godfrey
>
>