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From: ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET (Julian Reschke)
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Subject: Re:  Gemini on old STs
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Date: 20 Mar 90 08:06:24 GMT
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In article <2880@gos.ukc.ac.uk> David Clear writes:
>
> If some code was written to replace TRAP #13 (BIOS) with something that checke
> for character I/O function numbers and, if found, jumped through these new
> vectors (the vectors would, of course, initially point to the BIOS routines
> (or other routines which then called the BIOS)), would this allow GEMINI to
> work or is there more to it than that?
>
This COULD be done. But this would unnecessarely slow down the system. So
why support this evil old TOS from the long-gone dark days?
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