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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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In article <faj7ajp5bv7afggnp3tdufb6riu1m13m63@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 16:35:18 -0500, Lynn McGuire
><lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On 7/24/2024 6:19 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>> Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I saw an article where Microsoft was blaming the EU for forcing them
>>>> to allow 3rd-party access to the Kernal, which they claim is what
>>>> enabled the update to do bad things. If that is true, they may have a
>>>> point.
>>> 
>>> There is always third-party access to the kernel.  In the Windows NT days
>>> before Microsoft had figured out 1960s-style memory protection, any program
>>> in user space could make changes to the kernel.  And sometimes they
>>> accidentally did.
>>> 
>>> What the EU forced Microsoft to do was to DOCUMENT the kernel so that
>>> people could more reliably get third-party access.
>>> --scott
>>
>>There have always been back doors into the DOS, Win16, Win32, and Win64 
>>kernels.  I document some of those on my website:
>>    https://www.winsim.com/diskid32/diskid32.html
>
>I still have my Undocumented books (DOS, PC, Windows) and, somewhere a
>very popular in its day list of IRQs that I downloaded at some point.
>
>/Undocumented Windows/ pointed out that, as Windows evolved (this was
>mostly about the 16-bit versions), Microsoft re-organized the APIs it
>provided but left a stub in the original DLL to transfer the call to
>whatever DLL it was now in. 
>
>I once used that to demonstrate that even a system that was clearly
>designed could have "junk DNA" (superfluous code) in it. 
>
>This, of course, was back when "junk DNA" was Proof Positive against
>people being designed.
>
>Now there is no "junk DNA"; indeed, the difference between Man and
>Monkey appears to be all about the former "junk DNA", which kind of
>blows a hole in gene theory, as the non-genes appear to be more
>important than the genes in some respects.
>-- 
>"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
>Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
>Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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