From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2005-06-03, John Smith  wrote:   
   > 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   
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   > "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   
      
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   I never said anything about windows.   
      
   And all OSes have these calls. However in modern OSes they are the way to   
   call the kernel from userland. int80h is the traditional number used for   
   this under Unix. Just like int21 is dos.   
      
   P.s. annoying when sb has strange quoting habits and doesn't trim isn't it ?   
      
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