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From: mfb@mbunix.mitre.org (Michael F Brenner)
Subject: Re: NT serial ports and VGA
Date: 1997/06/10
Message-ID: <5njdvj$ie3@top.mitre.org>#1/1
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References: <339CAC56.12C@erols.com>
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford Mass.
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 1997-06-10T00:00:00+00:00
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Direct port access (for example, to do serial ports or VGA) under 
windows NT is a security violation (that is, will raise a system
exception) unless you have the game developers kit, which gives
you access to memory and ports.