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From: ching@pepsi.amd.com (Mike Ching)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Compiling MINIX 1.3 with Turbo C 2.0
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Date: 8 May 90 16:31:09 GMT
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In article <1174@acf5.NYU.EDU> bxj2161@acf5.NYU.EDU (bxj2161) writes:
>Hi guys:
>
>    I am compiling MINIX 1.3 using Turbo C 2.0 and MASM 4.0.
>And boot it from MS-DOS without building a boot diskette.
>
>    The major differences between the original MINIX 1.3 and my
>update are:

                 [Stuff deleted]

>  4. (Not finished yet) Use MS-DOS keyboard, screen, and printer
>     routines, so all the good functions of MS-DOS and BIOS can
>     be used. (Of course, you shall forget about the bad functions.)
>

I may be misunderstanding what is being done here but I was under the
impression that the BIOS routines couldn't be used since they are
not reentrant. I've been looking at porting curses and it would be
trivial if I could use interrupt 10 like the original does. Has
anybody already ported curses? It all started when I decided to port
pcomm which requires curses which requires ???.

Mike Ching