In article <slrn8c7omc.kji.gisle@apal.ii.uib.no>,
  gisle@apal.ii.uib.no (Gisle S�lensminde) wrote:
> In article <8a0gkf$pv8$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Ted Dennison wrote:
> >If you are talking 9x or NT, you can't do that. Those OS's don't
allow
> >direct access to the hardware. You have to do it using Win32 calls.
>
> NT and Win2000 otherwise, but I think you are wrong when saying that
> direct hardware is disallowed on Win9x.

Hmm. I thought you had to open up an 8-bit DOS shell under Win9x to do
that, which technically isn't really running under Windows. But I no
longer have such a system.

I suppose this is the kind of inacuracy one can expect when aksing an OS
question in a language newsgroup.

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