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ale42 • today at 3:20 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Funny project...

Tried to run SHELL from QBASIC, but it crashes:

  D:\qbasic.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close.
  
  Reason:  illegal instruction
  Address: 0x00002fee

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lqs_ • today at 4:09 PM

DOS interrupt support is still limited. Running SHELL would essentially require implementing a full MS-DOS COMMAND.COM, which is a significant undertaking.

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stuaxo • today at 4:13 PM

Oh, I did exactly the same :D