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Henk Geerling

Delphi Developer
Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Q: PENTIUM II machines and RTE 200

I try to run a BPW 7.0  dos application on a pentium II.
Executable runs perfect on a lot of machines.
But crashes on the pentium II.

Wrote a minimal application:

USING crt;

BEGIN
END.

This one crashes too.....

Can anybody help me out?

Henk.

 
Ulli Conr

Delphi Developer
Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Re:Q: PENTIUM II machines and RTE 200


On Mon, 30 Jun 1997 13:44:46 -0700, Ulli Conrad <uconr...@gwdg.de>
wrote:

Quote
>Hi Henk, the german magazine c't has just published an article about
>this problem. It's caused by a buggy CRT.TPU. You can load down a new
>CRT file from their FTP-Server:

>ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/msdos/misc/ct/listings/ct9707.zip

>In this file there is a new CRT.PAS and CRT.ASM that you can compile. It
>includes also DELAYTST.EXE, a little tool wich analyses the precision
>and the clock rate when this error appears for differnet BP versions.

Sorry I've forgotten TPP.TPL, TPW.TPL and TURBO.TPL. Better check the
index file in the archive.
Bye - Ulli -
------------------------
Ulli Conrad
Goettingen, Planet Earth
uconr...@gwdg.de
http://www.gwdg.de/~uconrad1
Ulli Conra

Delphi Developer
Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Re:Q: PENTIUM II machines and RTE 200


Quote
Henk Geerlings wrote:

> I try to run a BPW 7.0  dos application on a pentium II.
> Executable runs perfect on a lot of machines.
> But crashes on the pentium II.

Hi Henk, the german magazine c't has just published an article about
this problem. It's caused by a buggy CRT.TPU. You can load down a new
CRT file from their FTP-Server:

ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/msdos/misc/ct/listings/ct9707.zip

In this file there is a new CRT.PAS and CRT.ASM that you can compile. It
includes also DELAYTST.EXE, a little tool wich analyses the precision
and the clock rate when this error appears for differnet BP versions.

If you understand a little german you can read about this in c't 7/97,
"Borland-Zeitbombe" by Andreas Stiller.
regards - Ulli -
--
Ulli Conrad
Goettingen, Planet Earth
uconr...@gwdg.de
http://www.gwdg.de/~uconrad1

Glenn Grotzing

Delphi Developer
Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Re:Q: PENTIUM II machines and RTE 200


On Mon, 30 Jun 1997 12:46:41 -0700, Henk Geerlings

Quote
<ge...@worldaccess.nl> wrote:
>I try to run a BPW 7.0  dos application on a pentium II.
>Executable runs perfect on a lot of machines.
>But crashes on the pentium II.

Common problem, in fact the most popular problem it seems at the
current moment.  

Quote
>USING crt;

And that's why it crashed.  Specifically, the delay code, whose
initialization code appears in the initialization for this unit (read
it's executed when you call "uses crt"), is bugged in terms of faster
machines such as the Pentium II.  Read the other threads to learn more
and find possible fixes on this issue.

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