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   Marco van de Voort to Jim Leonard   
   Re: DOS biossing   
   20 Apr 05 21:14:56   
   
   From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2005-04-20, Jim Leonard  wrote:   
   > Marco van de Voort wrote:   
   >> Personally, I had problems with several cards that didn't update the   
   >> number of lines to the bios data area correctly, even in win95-98   
   > days,   
   >> and solved it by switching to the INT call.   
   >   
   > ...and in doing so, you inadvertently added *more* compatibility to   
   > your program:  old incompatible clones were always MS-DOS compatible   
   > (INT calls) even if they weren't IBM PC compatible (BIOS calls).   
      
   This is a bios call, which is also an int call. You are confusing INT 21   
   calls with INTs in general.   
      
   Msdos must gets its info about the videocard from such sources also, since   
   there is no "dos" in a videocard.   
      
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