From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7c65ca5609a07b8c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-23 13:56:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!zeus.visi.com!priapus.visi.com!orange.octanews.net!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!news.octanews.net!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!border2.nntp.ash.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!decbec26!not-for-mail From: "Brian Catlin" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: Hardware Interrupts Organization: Sannas Consulting X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 21:56:33 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.101.109.10 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1077573393 67.101.109.10 (Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:56:33 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:56:33 PST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5754 Date: 2004-02-23T21:56:33+00:00 List-Id: "David C. Hoos" wrote in message news:mailman.16.1077570392.327.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org... > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brian Catlin" > Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada > To: > Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 2:39 PM > Subject: Re: Hardware Interrupts > > > > > 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