From: assemblywizard@gmail.com   
      
   no, it is assembly...  high level languages hande the int's for you...   
   you are never required to know how to call up bios and dos int code...   
      
   John   
      
   "F Verbeek"  wrote in message   
   news:119u6516cill88c@corp.supernews.com...   
   > In the obscure news:lYqne.73$_n6.3638374@news.sisna.com,   
   > Someone calling himself John Smith   
   > suspiciously hiding as  uttered:   
   >> ghpolo:   
   >>   
   >> He meant to impress you with pascal accessing the registers directly,   
   >   
   > No, by means of a call to the Intr procedure which requires a   
   > registers   
   > variabele.   
   >   
   >> with an "assembly klude" pascal is capable of (manipulating registers   
   >> and int 10, int 21 calls, etc...)   
   >   
   > This was definitely not assembly but straight forward turbo/borland   
   > pascal.   
   > Never heard of RB?   
   >   
   >>   
   >> You would have to understand assembly language to be able to use that   
   >> effectively--it was just an ego thing on his part--it would only   
   >> obfuscate things for most beginners... you can choose to ignore it   
   >> and   
   >> go on with pascal...   
   >   
   > Registers is a record type. Pascal being (one of) the first languages   
   > that   
   > introduced this way of creating your own variabele type, is still the   
   > reason why it is so often used as a teaching language.   
   > The concept was later adopted by many other languages including C.   
   >   
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   > Femme Verbeek   
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