From: assemblywizard@gmail.com   
      
   ... because the only reason a person would stay emulating dos int's   
   though a windows dos box--is if they don't know how to call the winapi   
   directly--windows is going to do that anyway, to emulate the dos   
   int's--much better just to do it yourself...   
      
   ... Windows cannot give you access to msdos or bios int's (in the REAL   
   sense), it would crash if it did...  allowing your int to halt the whole   
   multi-tasking OS is a no-no...   
      
   ... only valid reason to do so (emulate though an emulated dos) is if   
   the ancient language you are programming in does not allow you to read   
   screen chars (the windows api does have a function to allow you to)...   
   and that is why the tic tac toe guy got the recommendation from me... I   
   doubt he is an accomplished enough programmer to call the winapi   
   directly... but for that matter... I doubt you capable!   
      
   John   
      
   "Markus Humm"  wrote in message   
   news:42aa9d1b$0$11732$9b622d9e@news.freenet.de...   
   > John Smith schrieb:   
   >> .... yes, windows does emulate dos...   
   >   
   > So what's the point? Tell us things we already know? How witty.   
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