From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, August 14, 2022 at 6:27:47 AM UTC+8, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
   > "muta...@gmail.com"  writes:   
   > >On Friday, August 12, 2022 at 11:57:37 PM UTC+8, s_dub...@yahoo.com wrot=   
   > >You seem to have called int 13h etc   
   > >a hal, and io.sys another bios.   
   > >   
   > >Are Hal and bios synonyms?   
   > HAL is an acronym for Hardware Abstraction Layer.   
   >   
   > BIOS is a member of the set of Hardware Abstraction Layers   
   > along with EFI, UEFI et alia.   
      
   Thanks   
      
   > >And I want the drive to be referenced by the string 0x80.   
   > And if you have 256 drives?   
   >   
   > Isn't a Universally Unique Identifier a far more useful way   
   > to reference a disk?   
      
   Sure, such a scheme would be fine.   
      
   But I'm after something with not much more   
   than the actual bios from around 1985.   
      
   Maybe 10 or 20% overhead.   
      
   The function fopen needs to convert 0x80   
   into a byte which will then be automatically used   
   to populate register DL for the normal int 13h   
   calls.   
      
   It won't be a real full c library.   
      
   It will rely on the fact that the os doesn't   
   need such a thing.   
      
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