Seems like you never used MSDOS then :) com1 is an msdos device name and redirects a port stream to a file handle. com1 is the serial port. There are more funky devices, such as "NUL", "CON" etc. It's even part of the Qbasic Docs.
Maybe the usage of them will force the system to be paused because probably they cannot be executed in multithreading mode. I's also likely windows will become kind of messed up because they're so old and the support of it may be limited.
In other words: I don't know :)
Maybe the usage of them will force the system to be paused because probably they cannot be executed in multithreading mode. I's also likely windows will become kind of messed up because they're so old and the support of it may be limited.
In other words: I don't know :)