BIOS in Xenix

Len Reed lbr at holos0.uucp
Fri Mar 22 05:45:08 AEST 1991

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In article <4647 at peora.sdc.ccur.com> tran at peora.sdc.ccur.com (Nhan Tran) writes:
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>   Does BIOS calls work in Xenix the same way in DOS?  Anyone know?

Lord, no.  The BIOS isn't even re-entrant.  Xenix (and Unix, too) uses
the BIOS for the initial stages of the bootstrap and then ignores it.

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