Re: Asm

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 10-28-92 (08:20)             Number: 339
From: REUVEN LAX                   Refer#: NONE
  To: VICTOR YIU                    Recvd: NO  
Subj: Re: Asm                        Conf: (2) Quik_Bas
 -=> Quoting Victor Yiu to Reuven Lax <=-

 -=> Quoting Reuven Lax to Victor Yiu <=-

 RL> You need to save SI DI BP DS SS SP DF IF.  DF has to be cleared and
 RL> Interrupts need to be set.
 VY>
 VY> OK.  IF?
 VY>
 VY> I don't know if you need to save SI or DI -- BP, DS, SS, SP I can
 VY> understand... (IF and DF are probably flags...)
 VY>

 His article said you need to save SI,DI,BP,DS (probably pointing to DGroup)
 You need to save the stack (ss,sp) have interrupts enabled when you RETurn
 (IF) and the direction flag has to be clear (DF).

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