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   John Smith to Marco van de Voort   
   Re: Simple chrono   
   03 Jun 05 11:05:14   
   
   From: assemblywizard@gmail.com   
      
   Windows will NOT grant you to call those (well, unless you like crashing   
   rebooting machines), what OS would you have us run those on, I even   
   believe Linux is smart enough to deny you--unless you allow "suicide   
   mode?"   
      
   John   
      
   "Marco van de Voort"  wrote in message   
   news:slrnda0pll.tje.marcov@snail.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   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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