From: jj4public@gmail.com   
      
   On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 12:36:48 -0700 (PDT), muta...@gmail.com wrote:   
   >   
   > BTW, I mentioned that hard disks would be limited to 2 GiB   
   > in size, but that would be the 32-bit version of the BIOS. A   
   > 64-bit version would be limited to 2**63 bytes.   
      
   I don't see why software based 64-bit integer in 32-bit BIOS is not   
   possible.   
      
   > Anyway, my question remains - I can see that it is possible   
   > to put a partial C library into the BIOS to cope with hard   
   > disks - but can the same be done for CDROMs or does the   
   > C90 standard need to be expanded on to include new calls   
   > to deal with CDROMs and/or mainframe CKD disks?   
   >   
   > BFN. Paul.   
      
   It's fine as long as the library doesn't use DOS service interrupts.   
   Otherwise you have to include the DOS services into the BIOS.   
      
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