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re: The story of the mysterious WINA20.386 file
"What widely-used piece(s) of software originally needed this A20 hack?" As Yuhong Bao briefly mentioned above, MS-DOS -- for the CALL 5 entry point. For CP/M-80 compatibility, the offset at PSP bytes...
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re: Microspeak: fit
fit/fit/ Adjective: (of a thing) Of a suitable quality, standard, or type to meet the required purpose: "the meat is fit for human consumption". Verb: Be of the right shape and size for: "those jeans...
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re: Microspeak: fit
Yes, I've heard Microsoft has an interesting definition of 'FIFO' which involves the word "fit" :P
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re: Microspeak: fit
'... Then again—"before she had this fit--" you never had fits, my dear, I think?' he said to the Queen. 'Never!' said the Queen furiously, throwing an inkstand at the Lizard as she spoke. (The...
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The Microspeak (or business-speak) seems to be the ritualistic formal use of "fit" in the stock expressions "good fit for X" and "poor fit for X", even where common speak would prefer "(un)suitable" or...
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Seriously? You consider this an Microsoft brewed addition to the English language? [Hardly. Microspeak is not just "words invented by Microsoft"; it's "peculiar usage that you see a lot at Microsoft."...
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re: The story of the mysterious WINA20.386 file
Interesting! Thanks Raymond. I really enjoyed this trip down memory lane.
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re: When you are looking for more information, it helps to say what you need...
I strongly agree with Scott's idea of why a user might do this: to guarantee (at least maximise the chances) of an accurate reply. A slight variation is that, even if you basically know the answer, you...
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re: Microspeak: fit
@JM here seems to get the implication. But yeah, Raymond might get less self-assured comments if he also provided the "normal human" alternative in these posts.
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re: The story of the mysterious WINA20.386 file
I think my answer is that I found it interesting because I never had to deal with any of this, so to me it's an insight into a complex but long-abandoned world. If I had once needed to deal with it,...
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@Ray Microspeak is not just "words invented by Microsoft"; it's "peculiar usage that you see a lot at Microsoft </quote> Is "Body" then Microspeak as well? I believe you do see a lot of "Body"...
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re: Microspeak: fit
Are you telling me that "Body" is not used at Micro$oft at a higher rate then in the general language? Do I really need to point you at www.microsoft.com pages and see what is the rate of the word...
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re: Microspeak: fit
This is also well-known in publishing circles as the delicate text for rejections: "This material is not a good fit for our current needs."
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re: The path-searching algorithm is not a backtracking algorithm
"And maybe that was your DLL planting attack: If you can convince the system to reject all the versions on the PATH by some means, you can then get LoadLibrary to look in the current directory, which...
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re: The path-searching algorithm is not a backtracking algorithm
@Mark: If LoadLibrary kept going when the network server was unreachable, then you could force a failure there (which just requires some control of part of the network in between) to cause the...
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@Mark: PATH=C:\dir1;\\server1\share;\\server2\share;C:\dir2 Suppose your DLL is on server1. An attacker on the local network (but outside your machine and with no write access to server1, thus outside...
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re: The path-searching algorithm is not a backtracking algorithm
GAK! Don't put network shares in your path.
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re: Microspeak: fit
I would propose the following working definition of "Microspeak"-ness: Let M be the event that a person works at Microsoft. Let W be the event that a person uses a (given) word w. Then a word w is...
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