Hello Aitor,

I leave the rest to michael, but

> (4) What are those special comments/marks for? What are they indicating?
> They are all over the sources
> ; (*-9-*)
> ; (#-9-#)

that's historic, kind of pre-diff;
it was published (printed) in several versions, and the later ones
had
 ; (*-9-*)
  here's the patch number 9 code
 ; (#-9-#)

> (5) In the startup of the driver, it is set 00AAh into memory
> 0040h:0072h, but I can't find references to this BIOS variable, what is
> that?
it's LPT4. and scince ther's no LPT4, it's abused and documented as
VDS enabled ;)

> (6) Finally, a simple and un-intentioned question about TASM/NASM. Is it
> feasible that EMM386 be ported to NASM?
no.
of course everything can be ported -  if you ignore cost.

> I mean, of course the answer could be YES, but it is worthless, but I
> just want to determine wether there is any actual problem, or it is just
> that it is a lot of work for little gain.
> I seem to remember Tom saying it was not feasible, but so was VCPI, so I
> am afraid I mis-interpretated your comment, Tom.

> More questions coming when I finish reading the sources.

> Thanks in advance,
> Aitor


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