Re: Hardware Interrupts

["Brian Catlin" <BrianC@sannas.org.bad>]

"David C. Hoos" <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.16.1077570392.327.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org...
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Brian Catlin" <BrianC@sannas.org.bad>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
> To: <comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 2:39 PM
> Subject: Re: Hardware Interrupts
>
>
> <snip>
> > I really think that you would be better off forgetting the BIOS and do
> > everything yourself.  This may sound like a bold statement (and a lot of
> work),
> > but one of the primary reasons that the Win9x family of operating systems
> was so
> > unreliable, is that they used the BIOS for I/O.  Contrast this with the
> > reliability of NT, 2K, XP, etc., which don't use the BIOS for anything
> (other
> > than loading their own boot loader from disk).  Get the ACPI specs
> > (www.acpi.org) and write your own code to parse the ACPI tables (which
> contains
> > the hardware configuration of the machine), and write your own "drivers"
> for the
> > various common PC motherboard hardware (VGA, keyboard, mouse, USB, serial,
> PCI,
> > etc.).
>
> Did you mean www.acpi.info? www.acpi.org is the
> Avaiation Crime Prevention Institute.


Oops.  Thanks for the correction

 -Brian