From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 17:53:35 +0800
To: "Chris Adams" <adamsc@io-online.com>
Subject: Re: DoJ is poking around
Message-ID: <3.0b11.32.19960828235710.01192e4c@mail.teleport.com>
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At 08:21 PM 8/28/96 -0800, Adamsc wrote:
>>> >looks like the DoJ have been looking around at the mirrors.. maybe to
>>> >legally hassle people about them....
>
>>> Or, just maybe, some DoJ employees wanted to see what folks on the outside
>>> were doing to tweek their bosses:-)? Reminds me of the *thousands* of hits
>>> the "Intel Secrets Page"(http://www.x86.org/) has gotten from users at
>>> intel.com 
>
>Out of curiosity, has anyone used a decompiler to check if any of the
>undocumented stuff is getting used in shipping programs?

I have not heard of anyone doing this with the Intel code, but I have seen
info on the "Secret APIs of Bill" (Undocumented Windows API calls) being
used in various programs.  (For more info on this, check out "Undocumented
Windows" by Schulman, Maxey, and Pietrek.)

I am sure that the people who produce SoftIce could give you more info on
this.  (Either that or talk with whoever is doing the undocumented feature
column for Dr. Dobbs.)
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