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From: lbr@holos0.uucp (Len Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: BIOS in Xenix
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.194508.4738@holos0.uucp>
Date: 21 Mar 91 19:45:08 GMT
References: <4647@peora.sdc.ccur.com>
Organization: Holos Software, Inc., Atlanta, GA
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In article <4647@peora.sdc.ccur.com> tran@peora.sdc.ccur.com (Nhan Tran) writes:
>
>   Does BIOS calls work in Xenix the same way in DOS?  Anyone know?

Lord, no.  The BIOS isn't even re-entrant.  Xenix (and Unix, too) uses
the BIOS for the initial stages of the bootstrap and then ignores it.

-- 
Len Reed
Holos Software, Inc.
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