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From: nkraft@crash.cts.com (Norman Kraft)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Writing ROMable code using Turbo Pascal (Also Turbo C and Assemb)
Keywords: IBM PC
Message-ID: <4423@crash.cts.com>
Date: 15 Sep 90 18:26:37 GMT
References: <11972@chaph.usc.edu> <1990Sep15.054458.20518@hayes.fai.alaska.edu>
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In article <1990Sep15.054458.20518@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> ftpam1@acad3.fai.alaska.edu writes:
>In article <11972@chaph.usc.edu>, mevawall@girtab.usc.edu (Shehzad Mevawalla) writes...
>>Is it possible to write ROMable code using Turbo Pascal, Turbo C and Turbo
>>Assembler? That is how can I prevent DOS and BIOS system calls in the 
>>executables?
>>

>Philip Munts N7AHL responds :
>     On the other hand, Turbo Pascal has OS calls liberally strewn throughout
>the run-time support, and in fact generated by the compiler in-line, as well.
>This makes it difficult to use Turbo Pascal on a "bare machine."

In reference to ROM'ing Turbo Pascal, I recently interviewed a programmer
who had done just that, even though Borland had claimed the task "impossible".
I saw some of the code, though not enough to know just how he did it (He
claimed that the code was proprietary to his previous employer). Anyway, 
he did have a ROM'ed application, in Turbo Pascal, running on a "bare"
286 board. Just thought you might like to know it can be done!

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