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From: sawant@nunki.usc.edu (Abhay Sawant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS is fast? followup
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Date: 8 May 89 00:30:26 GMT
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In article <8202@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (James Webster Birdsall) writes:
>me expand the question: Is there anything that DOS and/or the BIOS are
>generally recognized as being GOOD at?


I think the idea of having Get/Set Interrupt vectors as part of DOS
system calls was totally innovative.  It made possible a helluva lot
of incredibly *intelligent* applications, must've taken quite a lot of
foresight to dream of it.  Another thing i loved about the PC
architecture was the design of the bus, with the notions of running a
ROM on an addon card to help it startup etc!  That was a great idea
for a truly open architecture.


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