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   Marco van de Voort to All   
   Re: Simple chrono   
   03 Jun 05 14:18:29   
   
   From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2005-06-03, F Verbeek  wrote:   
   > In the obscure news:kFHne.184$VJ6.8276110@news.sisna.com,   
   >  Someone calling himself John Smith   
   >  suspiciously hiding as  uttered:   
   >   
   > Please stop the top posting. You are messing up the quotes.   
   >   
   >> 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...   
   >>   
   >   
   > Interrupt calls are not an assembly invention. They are due to the system   
   > and OS architecture. You can do them in almost any language.   
   >   
   > The registers type is a school example of a pascal construct. It is   
   > defined in the dos unit as   
      
   People interested in non-dos interrupts, see int80h.org   
      
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