Re[2]: Ilfak's interview is being slashdotted

[Pierre Vandevenne <pierre () datarescue com>]

Good Morning,

Saturday, January 7, 2006, 1:00:37 AM, you wrote:

> > At the conceptual level, what the fix did isn't very different from
> > what early DOS TSRs did when they hooked an interrupt vector.

JO> It's an on-the-fly in-memory patch like software crackers use.

The technique is older than the notion of software copy protection...

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Pierre                            mailto:pierre () datarescue com
  

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