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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: 8-bit death
Message-ID: <3636.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 11 May 91 14:56:39 GMT
References: <2945.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1991May7.090333.1449@kessner.denver.co.us> <3335.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1991May10.000135.7550@NCoast.ORG>
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Quoted from <1991May10.000135.7550@NCoast.ORG> by allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA):
> As quoted from <3335.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> by jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers):

> |     PClone, it appears to involve using fixed tables of vectors into the
> |     ROMs.

> ???  ONE interrupt is used for system calls --- INT 21H (that, by the way, is

    Then I must be including things akin to our external libraries. I'm
    fairly sure that I've used a different number to do things with the
    display. 0x10...?

> be dropped into place.  Theoretically, you're not supposed to call the BIOS
> directly, but we all know what MS-Doesn't is like....

    Must be it. Now that I know so many microcomputer OSes do this sort
    of thing, I'm certainly interested in _why_ they do it.

> Me: Brandon S. Allbery			  Ham: KB8JRR/AA  10m,6m,2m,220,440,1.2
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